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Hand's on Vesper Vision, Class B AIS superstar 27 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
Written for Panbo by Ben Ellison I ended my entry about Vesper Marine's excellent AIS collision avoidance software with tentative enthusiasm about the company's next generation WatchMate Vision trans...
VIRB cameras, the Garmin 'ecosystem' expands 21 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
Written for Panbo by Ben Ellison Yesterday Garmin big-footed into a new niche with new VIRB action cameras -- VIRB as in verb, as in action (I think). It's not a boat camera per se, but I expect that...
WiFi MFD's, Navico GoFree promises more than met 19 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Written for Panbo by Ben Ellison After Raymarine and Furuno introduced multifunction displays with WiFi built-in and apps that could mirror and even control the MFD screen on an iPad or Android table...
Eva-Dry your boat interior 14 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Written for Panbo by Dan Corcoran One of the products above has proven itself a far superior option in keeping my 39-foot sailboat pleasantly dry and odor free, despite an occasional need to close up...
Summer bummer, please don't blame charts or electronics 10 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Written for Panbo by Ben Ellison While my friend Leonard Lookner was first to come upon this bad scene Wednesday afternoon, he too was sailing and thus a powerboat just behind him was first to offer ...
GPS spoofing, will we ever learn? 5 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Written for Panbo by Ben Ellison Hat's off to Professor Todd Humphreys and his grad students for not only demonstrating that GPS spoofing is possible but for doing so in such a dramatic fashion that ...
Volvo Penta (Garmin) Glass Cockpit, just the beginning? 2 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Written for Panbo by Ben Ellison When I wrote about seeing the new Garmin 8000 Glass Helm series in Miami, several knowledgeable readers commented about how it would be used as part of a complete Vol...
Raymarine 2013 demo boat: gS125, the RMK-9 keypad & more 31 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
Written for Panbo by Ben Ellison Yesterday I enjoyed a few hours on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, aboard a Boston Whaler 280 Outrage recently fitted out as a Raymarine demo boat. Much of what I...
Raymarine 2013 demo boat: gS165, the RMK-9 keypad & more 31 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
Written for Panbo by Ben Ellison Yesterday I enjoyed a few hours on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, aboard a Boston Whaler 280 Outrage recently fitted out as a Raymarine demo boat. Much of what I...
Smart Chart AIS needs our help, Uncle Sam's too! 26 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
Written for Panbo by Ben Ellison The first Smart Chart AIS app, a result of the very interesting U.S. government-funded Class E AIS project discussed here last August, is looking fo 100 Panbo beta te...
