Sea Change

I suppose it depends on how useful you expect AIS to be. If a dot and a general direction is enough for you, great. If you want to get...

View from the masthead. Cabin boy kayaking home from playing with his friends on our buddy boat.

That would be bad if you’re collecting suitcases mid channel. For most of us, being seen rather than run down by a Liberian reg...

Oh I forgot to say, the range on my ONWA when connected to a masthead aerial was incredible- generally I'd always see big ships 25nm...

Best bang for yer buck will be one of the Onwa units then, as most AIS devices are ‘black boxes’ designed to display their info on a...

22 post in and we finally read what the OP wants !

I've got the Onwa K-708 and it's... OK. Hard to beat for the money (7" plotter with class B+ AIS transceiver and free global charting...

Orca uses internet data from Marine Traffic. Using internet AIS for navigation can be very dangerous, as it's often several minutes...

Med sailing in April

We are now fully up and running on all electric cooking. Gas has been removed completely. We have installed a Panasonic 4 way combi...

Don’t do it !!!! More in a moment. Yes it came down backwards and I could work on masthead or move mast so it protruded either end of...

Sorry to hear the boat didn't work out for you. For lowering the mast, things can easily get out of hand even on that size of boat...

Yes I think I remember that... I brought a bunch of 296 filters with me to the new boat, because at first glance our primary filter...

A kind friend gave me some CAV296 filters they had lying around. The metal rim was slightly rusty, and to get a good seal I tightened...

How does that work- surely it's just a battery and inverter in a box together?