Recent content by SJF

Mine arrived too, another flag flying near Swanwick. Many Thanks Pete. Simon

Our old Simrad RD68 couldn't send or receive position request/reports either whilst all the Icoms (M505 & M421) I've used have had the feature so I don't think the set has to be able to do it in order to meet the minimum requirements of the class D specification.

PM sent from me too. Thanks Simon

I would have a go at this job yourself, I had to do ours after our throttle cable snapped last year and other than having to dismantle large sections of boat to re-run the new cable it was a fairly straight forward replacement. I completely removed the old cable which made it easy to read its...

OpenCPN (http://www.opencpn.org) is my current favourite.

Another +1 for the Ubiquiti Bullet and an 8db omni antenna. I've been using ours for a couple of seasons now and am very happy with it. Full details of my setup are explained at http://www.quotingsolutions.co.uk/yachtwifi/.

Our 7' 6" pram dinghy was stolen from our midstream pontoon between 12pm Friday 14th June and 12pm Sunday 16th June 2013. The dinghy had our boat name 'Katy Girl' on the stern and a premier sticker stuck onto the inside of the transom. The picture below was taken prior to the winter...

Our Hamble River pontoon insurance is provided by Allianz. www.allianzni.co.uk

Nice to see Lustre is still going strong, hired the very same boat a few years ago for a week. An excellent week of 'proper' sailing.

The company is SRT Marine Technology. http://www.srt-marine.com/

I went with a Digital Yacht AIT2000 transponder, at the time I was drawn to it for its multiple connectivity options (NMEA 0183, NMEA 2000 and USB). I simultaneously use the NMEA 0183 HS output to the fixed Garmin chartplotter and also the USB connection into my laptop running OpenCPN which is...

The ATIS number and the call sign are two totally different things. If you've not heard of an ATIS number before its explained on the Ofcom website at http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radiocommunication-licences/ships-radio/faq/atis-faq/ You don't insert your call sign into the vhf as its not...

Another happy user of the CTEK M200, it looks after our two 90Ah house batteries fine for us. Another confirmation that it does start automatically when power is applied.

I would perform the following checks: • Double check the wiring. • Check for any settings in the radio for options to enable NMEA output (see NMEA Output on pg 49 of the manual, although this relates to DSC information it may also have a link to AIS data too). Your AIS model may also have...

+1 for the CTEK XS 0.8A charger, full details here.