Monthly Archive: July 2005

Raymarine E & Navionics Platinum, ALMOST here 0

Raymarine E & Navionics Platinum, ALMOST here

There’s finally some good Web material up about Navionics Platinum charts. Not surprisingly it’s at Raymarine’s site, as the E Series will be the first to display it. Definitely check out the “Feature Tour”, whose Flash animation illustrates some...

Inmarsat 4, solar sailor 0

Inmarsat 4, solar sailor

This babe, the first of Inmarsat’s 4th generation satellite fleet, was launched in March and recently went into service over the Indian Ocean. That dish antenna is 9 meters across, the array of solar panels...

MFD + 12v DVD/TV, yes you can 1

MFD + 12v DVD/TV, yes you can

It strikes me that with so many multifunction displays able to show video pretty darn well, a lot of boaters will be looking to upgrade their 12v helm stereo so it can play DVDs. Sound track on the stereo, picture on...

NVTi 3000, three eyed 0

NVTi 3000, three eyed

I shot this picture last winter during a demo in the ICW near Ft. Lauderdale. What you see (bigger here) is the ultra low light (.00015 lux!) output of a Night Vision Technologies (NVTi)  3000 Series pan...