Recent content by laika

Might this depend on placement? ie, 7m head to course computer might also be a 5m spur and a 3m spur off a 5 way block somewhere in the middle with the ev sensor connected by another spur. If the network were to be extended later it might (again, depending on layout) be easier to pop a...

“Repaired” might be an understatement for what appears to be required. I tried to take my dad out to lunch there a couple of weeks ago. Drove past where it used to be twice until I realise it’s been razed

Yes new cable but it's not as onerous a task as you may think. Depending on where everything is relative to each other it could be as simple as a 5 way block with terminators in each end socket and spur cables to the p70, the ev and the course computer although if the rest of your instruments...

Roger was certainly still trading the year before last. He sorted out an issue with the headlining in my heads. He'd done the whole boat 10 years previously, only issue was with that bit and 10 years is reasonable. Reliable, reasonable rates and for a job like that rather him with the pro gear...

Plenty of tubby people in the 70s. Are you maybe thinking more 70-80 years ago? Back then everyone smoked and cheese and onion crisps hadn't been invented

While I doubt daylight saving transitions were chosen to please to picnicking demographic it does benefit us. Average London temperatures in November are about the same as March and October is slightly warmer on average than April. For us sailors it’s even better. Sea water is warmest in...

It ain’t NMEA. With the disclaimer that I know nothing about this I’ll guess it’s the demodulated serial protocol described under “message format” here: NAVTEX - Wikipedia, (possibly with some proprietary stuff added?). It shouldn’t matter though if you’re taking the simple route with a serial...

Not the original idea (a free alternative to NMEA data coms which I was passionately in favour of), just the implementation which I see as a lost opportunity to make the original idea happen. I was engaged with the project early on but failed to effectively convey my point that what was great...

Openplotter tied everything together before SignalK. SignalK is a non-essential stage between transducers and OpenCPN or pypilot. It's main value seems to be (a) for software developers writing in languages which come supplied with a json parser who don't want to load / write an nmea parser...

3 pages in is probably a little late to ask…what is this question about? The original post seemed to imply the signal k message format and a server (last I looked there were two open source servers by the signal k devs and the commercial digital yacht ikommunicate). But now we're talking about...

Most people don't want to monitor the temperature of their fridge 24x7 and produce graphs of it. They want to see their speed, depth and direction on a weather-proof device in the cockpit with minimal effort. For any commercial product that's "plug x into y", or you can happily pay someone to...

This forum is full of people happy to comment on things they aren't expert on and given that I removed my old radar and failed in my intention to install a modern one before running out of cash I fall squarely into that category. I have done the RYA radar Course though and I wonder whether in...

Recently bought one of these (not an affiliate link): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BXCBT8BN I'm a little suspicious of anything which requires you to have an app to view the output: it's probably built-in obsolesce . This one has a screen. I'm generally happy with it but the downside is the...

I bought my "marinized" Brompton (no longer made it seems) from Landau UK...actually at Southampton but I'd noticed it at excel earlier that year. A perfect example of a product I would never have even known existed without the show.

I only started going to boat shows in the early excel days and thoroughly enjoyed it. One day was not enough. Detractors of the location seem to mostly want to publicly say they’re the kind of person who hates London: there are few places more accessible to the majority of uk boat owners by...