Recent content by achwilan

Ordered an Evermore SA920. Some tweeking of the Seatalk/NMEA network will be necessary. Thank you all for advices.

My backup solution is already a laptop with GPS mouse. The C70 uses both seatalk, and NMEA 0183, as a RT650 AIS VHF, and a Furuno radar are connected to the MFD, fed through a S2 course computer (cost and reliability reasons... I dislike the Raymarine's "one ring to rule them all" ... the home...

Well, I checked the wiring this afternoon, did a bit of soldering, and... nada zero. RIP Raystar. So, next step, I'll explore the solutions proposed by the helpful forumites.

I know the chips' static sensitivity problem; I tried to work cautiously; Old battery read O volt, quite dead; Last times (end of 2016 season), it took longer and longer to fix; while preparing 2017 season, I discovered it didn't work any more, so I searched the forums... I asked Raymarine...

Just as some other forumites' , my Raymarine GPS suffered the infamous dead battery failure. So I disemboweled the beast, replaced the faulty CR2032 battery, and alas, I am still stuck with "no fix" icon. The GPS status menu shows no satellite, and worse, the bottom softkeys appear greyed, with...

...Socialists, of course !...

Just buy a sailboat?... ;-)

I'm afraid lots of boatengineers just think of us as two-legged visa-cards... Look for an other engineer, or do it yourself? Cheers...

skipper_stu or skipper_rude ?...

Of course... I usually fly the 1188 Kroaz Du, just as they fly the Baner Sen Pyran... As for "complicated"... I must say that this forum looks sometimes like an unmatched psychology lab! :-D

A bit boring isn't it?... As a "traditional enemy" (oldest one, I'm a breton) , I'm thinking of getting a letter of marque to go and sail hunting the lobster! Unfortunately, the project may be cancelled as I could'nt fit a long nine chaser near the windlass...

Re: How's your anti foul doing so far? ...well, I'm happy with it! +1 hull antifouled may 2011 with Jotun seaforce 60 some slime now; I'll have to do it again in 2016...

submarines and fishermen . ...and remember Bugaled Breizh! Ah, yes, of course, we were told no sub was involved, and she sank alone...

Corsican ways... A french joke... (pronunciation of l'écorce and les corses is the same) "la France, c'est comme une orange, quand on enlève l'écorce, il reste le meilleur"

Well... we can lend you our cherished cryptocommunists... :-)))