Monthly Archive: November 2005

Guest blogging, Jeff Hummel at METS 0

Guest blogging, Jeff Hummel at METS

Over the next few days I’ll be posting some guest blogs from Jeff Hummel, who writes, “Over the last 10 years I’ve been making an annual trek to the Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS)...

C-Map PC Planner 10.0, bellissimo! 4

C-Map PC Planner 10.0, bellissimo!

  A C-Map question this morning reminded me that I’d meant to comment on my experience with the company’s latest PC Planner product. I’ve always liked the concept: bring home your chart card, stick it in...

Near miss, AIS in the Malacca Straits 25

Near miss, AIS in the Malacca Straits

Go to this page to see a series of screen grabs illustrating a scary close call between the 32’ ketch Valhalla and the 132 meter tanker Miri Cahaya. I’d almost guess that the tanker...

NOAA’s free rasters, happening 2

NOAA’s free rasters, happening

Honestly, I’m a little surprised that NOAA got its RNC ChartServer up and fully populated so soon. (And thanks to GPSNavX for the head’s up). I tried it yesterday, and here’s what I noticed: * According...

Northstar Pilot, a Navman winner 3

Northstar Pilot, a Navman winner

The wise judges of the DAME Design Awards have spoken, and the winner of the marine electronics category is Navman’s G-Pilot 3380. “This is an extremely cohesive product, with an attractive case design, intuitive controls and clear...

More mega, the phone thing 0

More mega, the phone thing

  My question, having seen the vast communications closet, was, “Is there a system for least cost routing the yacht’s phone calls?” And the answer was that you just go left to right on the line...