Monthly Archive: May 2005

SeaLinks AIS listener, & more 3

SeaLinks AIS listener, & more

The horrid run of foul weather has finally broken here, and I’m happily on Cape Cod for a few days of “researching” a cruising story…so posting may be irregular this week. I did have a couple of very...

Princeton Tec EOS headlamp, the nuts 0

Princeton Tec EOS headlamp, the nuts

Rugged waterproof build, 3 levels of LED light going all the way from “holy cow” bright to 28 hours on 3 AAAs dim, this Friday’s gadget is the best boat headlamp I’ve had my mitts...

Comar SLR-100 AIS, and more on dual frequency 2

Comar SLR-100 AIS, and more on dual frequency

Comar has a new SLR100 single frequency AIS listener for £299 suggested UK retail (the SLR200 is £575). Since they now make both single and dual frequency, I asked them about the differences. It turns out that their receiver, unlike Nasa’s, automatically...

ACR AIS simulator, very cool 1

ACR AIS simulator, very cool

Panbo—all AIS, all the time! I’m surprised to be writing so much on this subject, but there’s a lot going on, and you all seem so interested. Yesterday’s discovery was that ACR is giving away...

Xanatos live AIS viewer 2

Xanatos live AIS viewer

I used to refer people to AISlive as a great way to learn what the technology is doing for marine safety, but unfortunately the revised public service has turned out to be rather limited. Yesterday...

Charlie Barr’s record 0

Charlie Barr’s record

Yike! Above is the OPC’s prediction for 8 pm tomorrow night, my time. Today, 20 of the mightiest sailing yachts on the planet will set off from New York in a Transatlantic Challenge meant to celebrate, and...