shamrock
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I've heard tell that stingo's yazoo is quite the sight....
What instruments do you have onboard?
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I've heard tell that stingo's yazoo is quite the sight....
Tin Tin
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At the wheel:
- VHF remote handset
- compass
- autopilot control unit
Forward in the cockpit:
- wind
- echosounder
- log
- GPS repeater
At chart table
- VHF
- Radar/plotter
- Navtex
- autopilot control unit
- VHF remote handset
- compass
- autopilot control unit
Forward in the cockpit:
- wind
- echosounder
- log
- GPS repeater
At chart table
- VHF
- Radar/plotter
- Navtex
- autopilot control unit
ShaunG
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i like my toys
at wheel,
2 tacktick multi displays to display any wind/depth/log/gps/vmg data etc
Autopilot that also can repeat an data
RAM Mike for VHF
GPS and fluxgate (10hz)
At the chart table
PC with seapro 3000 performance sailing ( can control autopilot, displays all insturument data in data box windows)
Comar AIS
Battery Monitor
VHF
SSB Receiver
At the mast
2 x tacktick mast displays, again can display any data, inlcuding custom data generated by the PC, such as drift, offset,race course, start line bias etc.
The usual one is performance when cruising, it compares all data in (wind, log, drift etc ) against the polars which are constantly being updated and displays current boat speed as a %. I.e the pc knows that at a wind angle of 43 degrees, in 11 knots of wind you have previously done 6.5 knots. current speed of 6.3 knots will be represented on the mast display as 93% and you know that sail trim is not as good as it could be
at wheel,
2 tacktick multi displays to display any wind/depth/log/gps/vmg data etc
Autopilot that also can repeat an data
RAM Mike for VHF
GPS and fluxgate (10hz)
At the chart table
PC with seapro 3000 performance sailing ( can control autopilot, displays all insturument data in data box windows)
Comar AIS
Battery Monitor
VHF
SSB Receiver
At the mast
2 x tacktick mast displays, again can display any data, inlcuding custom data generated by the PC, such as drift, offset,race course, start line bias etc.
The usual one is performance when cruising, it compares all data in (wind, log, drift etc ) against the polars which are constantly being updated and displays current boat speed as a %. I.e the pc knows that at a wind angle of 43 degrees, in 11 knots of wind you have previously done 6.5 knots. current speed of 6.3 knots will be represented on the mast display as 93% and you know that sail trim is not as good as it could be
fireball
Well-Known Member
Is it the Seapro 3000 doing the data calcs?
ShaunG
Well-Known Member
it sure is, seapro holds the polars (auto learnt and auto updated) it then uses these polars against the boat speed, carries out the calculation and sends it to the monitor and the mast display
tjc
Well-Known Member
All new this year
Helm
E 80 Chartplotter
ST60+ Depth
Log
Graphic
6002 Autopilot
Wind
Compass
Ray Wireless remote
Icom CommandMic
Chart Table
St 60+ Tridata
Graphic
Nasa BM1
Ray LifeTag
ICOM VHF
Epirb
Rudder Reference
SPX 10
Raytech RNS and monitor output
Helm
E 80 Chartplotter
ST60+ Depth
Log
Graphic
6002 Autopilot
Wind
Compass
Ray Wireless remote
Icom CommandMic
Chart Table
St 60+ Tridata
Graphic
Nasa BM1
Ray LifeTag
ICOM VHF
Epirb
Rudder Reference
SPX 10
Raytech RNS and monitor output
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LONG_KEELER
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Thar's some serious gear !
I have usual stuff plus radar and chart plotter.
To be honest I don't know why I bought most of it.
Perhaps we buy things to make us feel good. TRouble is, the ego nails another list to your forehead a few day's afterwards.
It's weird that we are surrounded by screens and digi diddley's all week then board our boats and start turning the same stuff on again.
I think it probably diminishes our sailing consciousness and certainly lessens the spirituality of sailing. Our sailing forefathers seemed to do ok without it all and are probably having a good old laugh up there.
Despite all the above I would probably only stop using it if it packed up and felt I could not afford to replace it.
Kelpie
Well-Known Member
Steering compass
Bidata depth and log (just about visible through condensation which has got inside; log works only intermittently...)
Handheld plotter. Which is still in the car glovebox.
Windex. Which, being a proud dinghy sailor, I have not connected yet.
Bidata depth and log (just about visible through condensation which has got inside; log works only intermittently...)
Handheld plotter. Which is still in the car glovebox.
Windex. Which, being a proud dinghy sailor, I have not connected yet.
Searush
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For that cost, you could have bought a boat!
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DogWatch
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Do you motor-sail everywhere?
PerformanceSailor
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Some necessities, some not so much...
Boat is a 34 foot sloop.
Large steering compass on binnacle, with 5" Garmin plotter mounted on the guard.
Autohelm 4000+ AP, with control panel on the cockpit wall adjacent to the wheel.
Bulkhead: Raymarine ST60 depth, speed, and wind
Nav desk: ST60 repeater, Furuno lcd radar display. Also full set of charts.
Also, sometimes, my "older" G4 iBook running GPSNavX and a small gps antenna secured to the table top.
In truth, for most local cruising, the only really vital instrument is the depth sounder!
We do have a fixed-mount VHF and also a handheld VHF.
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Boat is a 34 foot sloop.
Large steering compass on binnacle, with 5" Garmin plotter mounted on the guard.
Autohelm 4000+ AP, with control panel on the cockpit wall adjacent to the wheel.
Bulkhead: Raymarine ST60 depth, speed, and wind
Nav desk: ST60 repeater, Furuno lcd radar display. Also full set of charts.
Also, sometimes, my "older" G4 iBook running GPSNavX and a small gps antenna secured to the table top.
In truth, for most local cruising, the only really vital instrument is the depth sounder!
We do have a fixed-mount VHF and also a handheld VHF.
L
Gwylan
Well-Known Member
In the cockpit we've got
At the helm
Compass, on the binacle
Auto helm controls & fluxgate compass display
Command mike for VHF
In the relative shelter, under the spray dodger
Depth
Wind speed & direction
Log - not connected, GPS does most of the necesssary & it gets bunged up with mud or crudtacea
GPS repeater
At the nav station
GPS - Philips that soldiers on as long as we replace the internal battery from time to time. This requires the almost total destruction of the boat to get at the batteries - thanks whoever installed it
Depth
Log
Navtex
Wind speed & direction, via the Meteoman Barometer
Yeoman plotter wired to the GPS. Wonderful bit of kit, would really miss it
Engine hours meter - of doubtful veracity, unless you are thinking of buying the boat.
Spare handheld GPS, in case it gets too much for the ancient Philips GPS
VHF, wired to the GPS
Handheld VHF on charger base
Handheld compass
Adverc battery management & monitoring
No Radar, no chart plotter, no PC!
In the privacy of the cockpit locker a birds nest of wires connecting this lot together and providing a future weekends work to rationalise it - if I dare.
At the helm
Compass, on the binacle
Auto helm controls & fluxgate compass display
Command mike for VHF
In the relative shelter, under the spray dodger
Depth
Wind speed & direction
Log - not connected, GPS does most of the necesssary & it gets bunged up with mud or crudtacea
GPS repeater
At the nav station
GPS - Philips that soldiers on as long as we replace the internal battery from time to time. This requires the almost total destruction of the boat to get at the batteries - thanks whoever installed it
Depth
Log
Navtex
Wind speed & direction, via the Meteoman Barometer
Yeoman plotter wired to the GPS. Wonderful bit of kit, would really miss it
Engine hours meter - of doubtful veracity, unless you are thinking of buying the boat.
Spare handheld GPS, in case it gets too much for the ancient Philips GPS
VHF, wired to the GPS
Handheld VHF on charger base
Handheld compass
Adverc battery management & monitoring
No Radar, no chart plotter, no PC!
In the privacy of the cockpit locker a birds nest of wires connecting this lot together and providing a future weekends work to rationalise it - if I dare.
reginaldon
Well-Known Member
I wonder what instruments the J133 had aboard that foundered off the N Kent Coast, compared with the Thames Sailing Barges that sailed between Penzance, Ostend, The Wash and London.
I do have a H/H GPS as well as a Sestrel, no Echo sounder, but then not a Easr Coaster, oh and a H/H VHF
I do have a H/H GPS as well as a Sestrel, no Echo sounder, but then not a Easr Coaster, oh and a H/H VHF
tjc
Well-Known Member
probably - but others play golf or whatever they spend money on. i like that stuff.
tjc
Well-Known Member
no - is that a pre requisite if you have a decent (imho) array of electronics. Not quite sure where you are coming from
Ubergeekian
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Years ago - well, in 1991 - I did a delivery trip in a fairly well known Sigma 33. She had a top-of-the-range GPS fitted, which had cost £4,500 (iirc) and which used so much electricity that we had to run the engine for at least four hours per day just to supply the GPS.
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DogWatch
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Well just thinking, when you turn that lot on the batteries must be wheezing..
Haven't-a-Clue
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Oo, let's see..........bulkhead compass, Garmin streetpilot (for lat & long to mark on chart) fishfinder for depth and maybe fish this year, tinytach for revs and hours, hand held anemometer (sp?) back up h/h GPS, eyeballs and brain and a healthy dose of paranoia that I'm doing it all wrong and everyone's laughing at me..........oh, and 2 logs, neither of which work properly, although I hope to sort them out at lift out.
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DogWatch
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