Weather Routing with Iridium Go
Last month, in part one of this report on portable weather routing options, I described why I selected Iridium Go to help guide my...
Getting Weather Data at Sea
As a USCG Master who does offshore deliveries, I rely on accurate and current weather forecasts. After exploring several options, I finally settled on...
Networking the Old and New
Over the years, Practical Sailor has done many articles analyzing VHF radios, chart plotters, etc. This article will discuss how to get various brands...
Making Sense Out of NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000
. This article is a sidebar to the article "Networking the Old and New," that appeared in the January 2019 issue. Use our search...
Converters and Connectors Round Out the Expenses
Although wireless systems have gradually made their way aboard modern cruising boats, hard-wiring remains an essential part of most systems, especially when you are...
Preventing Electric Shock at the Dock
The human body runs on electricity and if you overload the nervous system with an external field, everything goes haywire. Every year several people...
Wireless Boat Monitoring
Most of us spend a great deal of time away from our boat. Whether shes on the hard, moored in our home harbor or...
Deck-level Wind Vanes
There are two primary wind indicators on a sailboat. First, we watch the sails. Sailing to windward we watch the jib for luffing and...
Crimping and Sealing for a Life Offshore
Mast antennas, like all electrical components, are particularly vulnerable to water intrusion at connectors. In the extreme, corrosion at unions or terminals can damage...
Special Report: How to Prevent AIS and VHF Antenna Malfunction
Allowing sailors to track nearby shipping traffic and to continuously broadcast their own boats position, the automatic identification system (AIS) transceivers available today have...
Hunter Legend 35.5 – Behind the Curtain
Are you interested in a 32-36 foot sailboat that's small enough to sail as a couple, big enough to sleep on comfortably, fast enough...
