Yacht Castor
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After a long hiccup (8 Months) we are about to go back to the boat in Spain and resume our cruising life. Like most of you out there I have everything but the kitchen sink!!! no change that we do have a kitchen sink but we don’t have A.I.S.
Been thinking about it for so long....do I go down the cheap route and just have a USB type receiver which I can only use when running the laptop with Raymarine software hooked up to an E80 on deck or do I install into the Raymarine system? Only problem is all the connectors on the E80 are being used so will have to pay for lots of new magic boxes that cost the earth and seem to do little and will have to pay someone to install it for me. Do I keep it receive only or do I push the boat out and transmit as well. I can think of a hundred reasons for having it all and a hundred more for not bothering, "hay we have done OK up till now with eye ball and compass bearings and radar." If it was all not too expensive say about a couple of hundred squid I would go for it without thinking and convince her-on-board it was another essential safety item but......my mind says if your going to do something do it properly and that means about a grand plus....."hay we have done OK to date with eye bal............."what have you done? Someone convince me I should spend a wedge on this kit and come up with a way of making it acceptable to her-on-board. No gory video clips of yachts being mowed down by tankers please she gets a little nervous.
Been thinking about it for so long....do I go down the cheap route and just have a USB type receiver which I can only use when running the laptop with Raymarine software hooked up to an E80 on deck or do I install into the Raymarine system? Only problem is all the connectors on the E80 are being used so will have to pay for lots of new magic boxes that cost the earth and seem to do little and will have to pay someone to install it for me. Do I keep it receive only or do I push the boat out and transmit as well. I can think of a hundred reasons for having it all and a hundred more for not bothering, "hay we have done OK up till now with eye ball and compass bearings and radar." If it was all not too expensive say about a couple of hundred squid I would go for it without thinking and convince her-on-board it was another essential safety item but......my mind says if your going to do something do it properly and that means about a grand plus....."hay we have done OK to date with eye bal............."what have you done? Someone convince me I should spend a wedge on this kit and come up with a way of making it acceptable to her-on-board. No gory video clips of yachts being mowed down by tankers please she gets a little nervous.