Recent content by Boreades

Re: Does anyone remember a "Celtic Cross" article by Crichton Miller in PBO? I've only recently found the connection between Crichton Miller's Celtic Cross (as a surveying instrument) and the ancient Egyptian Merkhet. This combines a Cross Staff and Plumbline; effectively the square and compass...

Just received a Mayflower Marina newsletter, and noticed something relevant to this thread. They are improving their rescue ladders. I like the bit about Sod's Law states that "No one will ever fall in next to a ladder". But I have to confess I've walked past one of their rescue ladders about...

I wonder how many of our YBW inmates are actually volunteers for the RNLI? Or in fact any of the major charities in the UK? The lifeboat skipper might well have done wrong. But should he have just got a reprimand? Or even a written warning? By dismissing him, the "senior management" have sent...

I found something useful on the Raymarine site. It sounds like I might be able to carry on using the old ST30 transducer. But I'm not sure what to do about the wind display. Can I use the old ST30 wind display's wiring?

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Sadly the GX2200E VHF outputs NMEA 0183 not NMEA 2000. Can that be bridged? Re why you would want any USBs unless you are using a PC for navigation. Yes, I have a VisitMyHarbour USB chart stick to go in a laptop, and wanted to feed the GPS and AIS NMEA data streams to the laptop. Starting...

Sad to report that our 1988-vintage SeaTalk ST30 is getting decrepit. It's worked well for nearly 30 years, but the wind speed instrument died completely a while ago, and now the displays are getting unreadable in daylight. The existing system has the wind speed, hull transducer, speed, depth...

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Ah, Mr Bond, so nice of you to join us. I think M misheard. We are talking about Greek islands. Islands you can sell.

It is there, you might have to click on "More". But the author is asking c.£7 for it. Which seems to be causing confusion and trouble back on CruisersForum. People are asking why the Windows and Mac versions are free but this version costs money...

A notable track on David Gilmour's next album. It's a tribute to Richard Wright, who died recently but had for years sailed a 60 foot yacht. Can be heard here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b066tsby Fast forward to 01:12:00

Perhaps the regulator is the key to the problem. In a car, with the engine on and the generator generating DC, the voltage presented to the regulator is probably well over 12V. If it's the kind of socket designed for cars, should it work if the car isn't running? In a boat, without the engine...

+1 Having spoken to various MS insiders, it seems they are trapped in the marketing cycle rather than the engineering cycle. MS Marketing demands bright new shiny things on a regular basis to dangle in front of gullible consumers. MS Engineering hates all the deckchair rearranging, because they...

In my case, it's the blue pebble-dashing of hands, arms and shoes that gets me bang to rights. It's a fair cop, I'm a serial AF offender.

Eh? I thought they already had? My wife was a right scrubber when I met her on a RYA course. She fell for my invite to scrub my barnacles and have a look at my golden rivet.