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Sunday, October 14, 2018

Electronics and Navigation

The electronics were dated and I already had some nice gear on Rogue Wave so sacrifices had to be made. Summary of equipment:
NKE:
Gyropilot 2 autopilot with fluxgate compass driving either port or starboard Type 1 Linear Drives 1x TL25 triple display, 3x Gyrographic autopilot controllers and multi-page information displays;

remote controls for autopilot and displays, speed, depth and temperature sensors; and a NMEA output interface to get the data onto the Raymarine system and NMEA inputs to get Raymarine STng data into the NKE Topline proprietary language.

Raymarine:
e7 Multifunction Display (MFD) under hard dodger; eS78 MFD at Nav station; i60 Close Hauled Wind and p70 Autopilot control in cockpit; ACU 400 EVO autopilot with 9 axis heading sensor driving either port or starboard Type 1 Linear Drives; and a mast mounted Quantum Chirp broadband radar. I use the Actisense NGT-1 optocoupler to get all that data into the laptop.

Navigation: 
Euronav SeaPro 3000 performance sailing software running on Predict Wind Pro weather routing and GRIB data supported by Total Tide for worldwide coverage.
I have been using Navionics Gold charts since my first handheld Ray400 handheld chartplotter years ago (it still lives in my grab bag!)

Weather monitoring/planning:
Weems & Plath electronic barometer that has pressure alarms and graphical display of trends.
Predict Wind Offshore software.

Comms: 
Standard Horizon GX2000 DSC VHF at the nav station and RAM mic in the cockpit. Standard Horizon HX870 DSC VHF handheld and GX300 handheld for the grab bag or shore party. NASA HF Receiver is carried but not yet connected providing world wide SSB radio and weather info.

SATCOMMS:
Voice/SMS/Data via Iridium 9555 handset (spare handset in grab bag) running through a Red Port Optimizer data compression device (wifi/ethernet) and deck mounted marine antenna. Clientsat in Western Australia hooked me up on a Pivotel plan based on GRIB downloads every 2 -3 days offshore. Predict Wind Offshore software can generate the weather routing options and I can also use the same in the SeaPro 3000 software and now with the latest Lighthouse software I can also lay GRIB data directly onto the Raymarine MFD charts.

Entertainment:
Tunes are provided for by the Fusion RA-205 stereo that can be controlled via the MFDs using the resident Fusion-Link application or bluetooth.

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