Monthly Archive: April 2006

Annapolis frees the WiFi, with some ads 0

Annapolis frees the WiFi, with some ads

Great news from Annapolis (with a tip’o’the cap to Jeffrey): today there’s a“wire cutting” ceremony to comemorate the advent of free WiFi service in the downtown area, which definitely seems to include the various marinas and...

Navman 8120, is the “C120 killer” dead? 4

Navman 8120, is the “C120 killer” dead?

I don’t know why I haven’t mentioned the Navman 8120 before, because I surely was impressed when I had a chance to fool with it last December. But now it’s particularly noteworthy as the company supposedly has...

Brunswick to sell BNT, Ben Baffled 5

Brunswick to sell BNT, Ben Baffled

Well, I’ll be damned! The very unexpected news is that Brunswick now plans to sell much of Brunswick New Technologies, specifically the marine electronics bundle of Northstar, Navman and MX Marine plus Navman’s non-marine operations. This plan seemingly torpedos...

AIS, this ‘n’ that #4 4

AIS, this ‘n’ that #4

* Thanks to Panbo reader Derek for a link to AISLiverpool, the neatest AIS plotting Web site I’ve ever seen, especially since AISlive, and then Xanatos, became mostly subscription services. I’m not sure this will please the IMO, which is...

Mind the flares, a product recall 0

Mind the flares, a product recall

Apparently there’s a bad batch of Paines Wessex white collision warning (Mk7) hand flares out there, specifically batch numbers 2045 through 2046, which were distributed in the U.S. and Europe. You really don’t want to...