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NMEA 0183 lives: Digital Yacht GP150 DualNav & Furuno IF-NMEA2K2 Converter
Written by Ben Ellison on Oct 1, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub I’ll write soon with NMEA Conference details of the futuristic (and unfinished) NMEA OneNet standard, but I also left San...
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Improved current data? Let the IHO know you care.
Written by Ben Ellison on Oct 9, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub Maybe you, too, have an opinion about how predicted currents should be overlaid on electronic charts? Well, the...
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FLIR M-Series nav cam test, Raymarine integration appreciated!
Written by Ben Ellison on Oct 17, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub I’ve long thought that the usefulness of a navigation camera would increase significantly with tight integration to a boat’s...
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NOAA erases the Magenta Line, will crowdsourcing step up?
Written by Ben Ellison on Oct 21, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub When Peter Swanson called to say he’d just become PassageMaker’s new editor-in-chief (which he’ll be great at, I think), the...
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Simrad MOnitors, the other NSO evo2 shoe drops
Written by Ben Ellison on Oct 31, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub So, it turns out that when I saw the new NSO evo2 blackbox system at IBEX Simrad was low key about it because they were...
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Raymarine LightHouse II, the paper chart lives on
Written by Ben Ellison on Nov 6, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub Isn’t it interesting that just after we learned that NOAA will no longer print traditional paper charts, Raymarine announced...
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Holy Garmin cow: SideVü/DownVü, GPSMAP 800/1000, GMR 18/24 xHD, Meteor 300,...
Written by Ben Ellison on Nov 18, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub Garmin is purportedly announcing nearly fifty 2014 marine products today! A lot are related to the company’s new ability to...
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Simrad NSS evo2, multi-touch 7-inch to 16-inch and beyond
Written by Ben Ellison on Nov 19, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub At METS this morning, Simrad announced an evo2 update to the NSS Series and quite an update it is. The new multi-touch wide...
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Furuno MUxxxT monitors, Hatteland X Series, and TimeZero Coastal Monitoring
Written by Ben Ellison on Nov 21, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub Furuno’s new multi-touch MUxxxT monitors are intended to play nicely with NavNet TZtouch MFDs. Using its DVI output, the...
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METS 2013: Glomex WeBBoat, fingers on Garmin and Simrad, and more
Written by Kees Verruijt on Nov 26, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub The Marine Equipment Trade Show 2013 held in Amsterdam last week lived up to its reputation again. The trade floors were...
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Argonaut’s giant A615 Android tablet, and a Panbo reader survey
Written by Ben Ellison on Nov 30, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub This is different! While the new Argonaut A615 Smart Monitor has several of the marine display features the company is known...
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Lowrance Elite-4 HDI, a whole lot of tech for a little dough
Written by Ben Ellison on Dec 19, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub While I don’t normally follow the small-size displays closely, the new Lowrance Elite-4 HDI models announced yesterday seems...
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B&G H5000 tempts my racing heart
Written by Kees Verruijt on Dec 22, 2013 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub At the METS 2013 show in Amsterdam last month B&G unveiled their new H5000 range of sailing instruments and auto...
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Humminbird Ion Series, GeoNav is way more than back
Written by Ben Ellison on Jan 6, 2014 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub Johnson Outdoors really wants a piece of bluewater marine electronics. I learned a lot about the long, determined history of...
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Navico writer’s event 2014: B&G, Simrad & Lowrance product highlights
Written by Ben Ellison on Feb 10, 2014 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub Navico did it again, even better than last time. The company gathered 24 boating writers at the Hawk’s Cay Resort along with...
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Semi live blogging the Miami shows, backwards
Written by Ben Ellison on Feb 13, 2014 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub Garmin integrates with Mastervolt CZone digital power I think they overhyped the innovation but this is great news for...
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Miami 2014, glass bridge everywhere
Written by Ben Ellison on Feb 18, 2014 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub The Garmin and Volvo Penta Glass Cockpit won a lot of awards and shook up the competitors. I think it’s why Raymarine rolled...
View Article59º North Podcast with Weems & Plath Owner Peter Trogdon
Andy sat down with Peter in January in Annapolis to talk all about Weems & Plath, Peter’s history as a sailor, the history of navigation, and the new exhibit on navigation at the Smithsonian...
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eLoran is back, thanks to Kim Jong-un?
Written by Ben Ellison on Feb 27, 2014 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub When this photo went up on Panbo in early 2010, the prospect of an eLoran system to back up GPS in the USA seemed worse than...
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Raymarine LightHouse II, the chart goodness
Written by Ben Ellison on Mar 11, 2014 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub A demo look at the new LightHouse Charts got me excited last fall, and I feel more so now that I’ve cruised around with...
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