All Entries Tagged With: "marine electronics"
List of Simrad Electronics Eligible for Rebates
Simrad Yachting said customers purchasing certain new marine electronics products from authorized dealers are entitled to rebates up to $200. While the program runs til the end of June, customers who purchased eligible products beginning February 8, 2010 are also eligible for the rebates. That’s a nice touch.
Here’s a list provided by Simrad of the [...]
KVH Offers Rebates for Upgrades to HD7 Sat TV System
KVH Industries said today that current TracVision satellite TV customers can upgrade to the latest HD7 system and get a rebate of up to $2,000, depending on which system they are upgrading. The promotion runs through June 30, 2010. The deal requires the customer to return to KVH the old system’s circuit boards via an [...]
Outfitting the Nordhavn 55 with Computers – Part 2
This is Part 2 of our new series on outfitting the Nordhavn 55 with computers instead of, or in addition to dedicated marine electronics such as chartplotters. In the first installment we covered the boat itself, along with some comments about the boat from an actual owner, John Marshall. In this article, John gives us [...]
Outfitting the Nordhavn 55 with Computers
With this article, we are beginning a new series that illustrates how the Nordhavn 55, one of the most popular of the globe-girdling Nordhavns built by Pacific Asian Enterprises, might be equipped with computers for navigation and other chores. Earlier this year, OceanLines ran an extensive series of articles on outfitting the Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition [...]
Intellian Offers All-Americas LNB For Easy Western Hemisphere Sat TV Reception
Intellian this week announced a new, dual-band “All-Americas”tm Low Noise Block (LNB) for satellite TV. According to the company, a simple press of a button will now allow boaters to switch between DIRECTV, Dish Network or ExpressVU in North America and DIRECTV Latin in Central and South America.
The All-Americas LNB eliminates the hassle of complex [...]
Simrad-Yachting Launches New NSE Chartplotter Series
Simrad-Yachting, a division of Navico, yesterday announced the availability of a new series of fully integrated, networkable chartplotters — the NSE series. Available in both 12.1-inch and 8-inch displays (NSE12 and NSE8, respectively), the units purchased in North America come fully loaded with Nautic Insight HD high-resolution vector cartography. They are fully compatible with the [...]
Simrad Outfits the New Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition
Simrad proposes a state-of-the-art electronics suite for the new Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition trawler.
Raymarine Continues to Roll Out New Products with New Capabilities
Miami Beach — Among the first of what will be a small tsunami of new products announced here at the Miami International Boat Show are four new product lines from Raymarine. OceanLines readers were among the first to hear about some of them in Raymarine’s proposed helm outfitting for the new Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition. You [...]
Furuno Outfits the New Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition
A Furuno NavNet 3D System Installed on a 57′ RivieraFor more than sixty years, since the commercialization of the first electric fish-finder, Furuno has been a pioneer in the development of marine electronics. OceanLines asked Furuno USA to participate in our hypothetical outfitting of the new Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition trawler. The company responded with a proposal from Matt Wood, Sales Manager for Furuno USA. Furuno’s proposal represents a state-of-the-art suite of multifunction units, sensors and networking technology, focused around the company’s NavNet 3D product line.
Garmin Outfits the new Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition
Garmin Proposed Helm for New Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition — Courtesy of Garmin
Garmin has proposed a sleek, modern marine electronics suite for the new Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition that offers extensive capability and nearly unlimited flexibility and redundancy due to its extremely high level of NMEA 2000 networking integration. NMEA 2000 has been a long time in coming [...]
Let’s Outfit the Helm of the new Kadey-Krogen 55′ Expedition
On Monday, February 2, 2009, OceanLines will publish the first in a unique series of articles intended to demonstrate the current state-of-the-art of passagemaking-level marine electronics. We have been working with Kadey-Krogen Yachts and its vice president, Larry Polster, to demonstrate how each of four of the top marine electronics companies would outfit the newest [...]
