Electronics upgrade - New to me boat passed Survey!!!

Monique

Monique

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Hello Gang,

She made the grade with flying colours. However, the most electronics are well past their "best by" date. The following units will be retained: old but great FURUNO radar and upgraded Raymarine 7000 autopilot. Old B & G cockpit instruments but fully serviceable.

We will need old FURUNO radar and Raymarine 7000 integration into an NMEA 2000 compliant system plus the following upgrades.

-New chart plotter
-second autopilot for largish WAFI
-DSC main VHF
-DSC waterproof cockpit VHF
-AIS A&B engine

Cockpit nav will be via iPad with suitable cruising area chart and AIS integration.

What are the suggestions?? Where are best prices?? Installation in SOF??

TA as always
 
Some slightly eccentric assumptions here, it seems to me :)

You're going to buy a chartplotter, but then hide it downstairs in the living room and actually navigate on an iPad? That's a lot of money for something you'll inevitably hardly use.

Two separate VHFs? I guess that gives flexibility, but finding somewhere to mount both aerials sounds tricky. Is there a reason you actively don't want one VHF with a second station?

Don't quite understand what you have in mind for a "second autopilot"? Is this just meant to be a spare, or what? Anything you buy new will be better than the 7000, so that ought to become the spare.

I'll chip in my suggestion for VHF and AIS at least - Standard Horizon GX2100. It's an excellent radio, made by Yaesu (one of the world experts). Also get the RAM3 second station which you can mount in the cockpit. The radio includes an AIS receiver, so you don't have to worry about extra aerials or splitters. Don't bother using the AIS display on the radio's own screen (it's too small), but connect its NMEA output to a plotter or Watchmate display.

An S100 autopilot remote can be useful as well, assuming you stick with Raymarine for the pilot.

Pete
 
prv said:
Some slightly eccentric assumptions here, it seems to me :)

You're going to buy a chartplotter, but then hide it downstairs in the living room and actually navigate on an iPad? That's a lot of money for something you'll inevitably hardly use.

Two separate VHFs? I guess that gives flexibility, but finding somewhere to mount both aerials sounds tricky. Is there a reason you actively don't want one VHF with a second station?

Don't quite understand what you have in mind for a "second autopilot"? Is this just meant to be a spare, or what? Anything you buy new will be better than the 7000, so that ought to become the spare.

I'll chip in my suggestion for VHF and AIS at least - Standard Horizon GX2100. It's an excellent radio, made by Yaesu (one of the world experts). Also get the RAM3 second station which you can mount in the cockpit. The radio includes an AIS receiver, so you don't have to worry about extra aerials or splitters. Don't bother using the AIS display on the radio's own screen (it's too small), but connect its NMEA output to a plotter or Watchmate display.

An S100 autopilot remote can be useful as well, assuming you stick with Raymarine for the pilot.

Pete
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I've used iPad and they are as useful as a plotter; perhaps more as I navigated my previous boat solely on iPad and seldom loaded the plotter.

Second VHF will be a floater with its own antenna for use in the cockpit.

Agree with your autopilot opinion... 7000 will become the secondary unit.

I had SH 2100E in previous boat... indeed very good kit. I was thinking about an SH 851 for the cockpit

Remote: agree. So far Raymarine kit is the front runner unless B&G come up with superb offer...

Thanks for your input.
 
LadyInBed said:
Why?
OK, you don't need it if you always sail short hops with adequate crew, but for any distance sailing your crew would really have to love helming.
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No problem with the autopilot, I just don't like the idea of linking the GPS to it. Again, ok if it's monitored but I know of one case where a yacht ran down a buoy while under auto route mode.
 
Hadenough said:
ok if it's monitored but I know of one case where a yacht ran down a buoy while under auto route mode.
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I also recall a case of a mobo that T boned a buoy on a delivery trip out of the Solent while under auto route mode, but that could also happen under auto to anyone if it's not monitored.
More to do with keeping watch than method of helming.
 
I have the chart plotter in the cockpit and the iPad on the chart table. It won't last long anywhere wet!!
Imo linking everything together is more trouble than it's worth. In fact separate redundancy is better.
 
Redundancy is expected by having most information uploaded to the iPad as well as the main plotter. I am not a big fan of all eggs in 1 basket..

Thank you 1 and all.
 
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