Network intentions for new boat

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Having bought the boat - Conq 38 .... and working through wiring maze ... the thoughts on 'network' crop up.

Having been mightily impressed with the NMEA2WiFi unit and its capability to not only pool NMEA0183 and Seatalk ... but also USB / WiFi ... I am going to use the later NMEA4WiFi unit - giving even greater number of possibilities.
Guy who produces these units is on vacation - sailing his boat of course, which he originally deigned the units for - and the 4 vers is sold out till his return - late Sept. Well worth the wait.

My Onwa Plotter with full AIS B+ transceiver will be installed at the chart desk ... and feed out AIS to the Garmin MFD in cockpit. I will see no need to enrich Garmin's pockets for their 'nobbled' navionics - the Onwa is more than enough. The Garmin has full Swedish charting - so Archipelago is doubly covered ... Onwa and Garmin. Latvian Coast is pretty basic and the World Chart on the Garmin is enough for passage .. the Onwa and Tablet Navionics then taking over close in.

The beauty of the NMEA4WiFi unit is that anyone crewing / guesting on board will have full WiFi access to all data from that unit.

The B&G Network gear says it can output NMEA - so that can be fed into the overall flow.

The ONWA AIS works excellent ... both Tx and Rx ... it will need to split with VHF - the Sailor unit will be replaced with my Cobra GPS / DSC unit ... putting my spare Cobra non GPS DSC back into Superanne (with GPS module added). The ONWA splitter is passive and actually works well - but I will crack the wallet open for an active unit .....
 
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