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Another vote for the Triton2, they are clear, bright and visible in direct sunlight - highly recommended. Some clever presentation of data for Wind and Tide screens.

This is your Ethernet connector, should be able to plug an RJ45 straight in. If you have B&G instruments or plotter you can set the depth offset via the calibration menu.

Hedley half hull models - Hedley Half Models made a stunning job of one for a friend.

I’ve got one of the PCNautic rams paired with a B&G NAC-2 autopilot computer which then talks to my chart plotter - it’s brilliant! Very happy with the performance, it can steer to apparent wind beautifully upwind and seems able to Cope with quartering seas as well.

According to a dealer I spoke to at th boat show, you can connect a compatible simrad VHF/AIS to it and receive AIS targets - but worth calling Simrad to confirm

The card may need to be FAT or FAT32 formatted to work - do you know how it’s formatted?

Big ship in the Hamble this morning - or a decimal point in the wrong place?

I’ve got a Fusion RA70N - fitted perfectly in old car stereo slot, really simple to use and can be controlled by nmea2000 from my B&G plotter. (N model has NMEA2000, so make sure you get that one if you want the connectivity)

I tried them both on friends’ boats and much preferred the B&G - they seem to be designed for sailing and the functionality (laylines, wind data) was head and shoulders above the Raymarine, so I bought a Vulcan plotter and Triton instruments. Impressed so far: it just works!

I found this useful - there is a section on connecting B&G Network instruments midway down the page. https://www.bandg.com/en-gb/blog/how-to-add-a-vulcan-chartplotter-to-any-boat/

That's what sold me on a B&G Vulcan instead - https://www.bandg.com/en-gb/sailing-features/

I've been wondering whether to buy one as well - came across this blog post and thought these screenshots were interesting. https://www.bandg.com/blog/forwardscan/

B&G have a new wireless wind sensor out which looks good - https://ww2.bandg.com/ws300-wind-sensors/. I've got one on order to replace my wired sensor next season.

IT does use the internal GPS and works well as a standalone chartplotter, but you'll need to add a compass heading to use the sailing features (something like a ZG100 gps/compass would work). The Simrad tillerpilot may supply this if connected, might be worth calling B&G/Navico UK - 01794 518448...

I found this page useful: https://ww2.bandg.com/upgrade-to-bg-this-winter/ For Interfacing Options For My Vulcan...