February 2009
River Tug Jigsaw puzzle
Submitted by cac on Sat, 2009-02-28 18:14This one came up on my wife's puzzle program again... I like the picture :-)
Ship Sim Pro, with NMEA 0183 I/O
The screen shot above could be from a "game" called Ship Simulator 2008, which in itself is pretty neat. (First I tried the demo, and then 17 Euros and a 705mb download later, I owned the darn thing ;-). But, in fact, the screen came from Raymarine Marketing Manager Jim McGowan who is using a beta copy of Ship Sim Pro 2.0, which among many other enhancements read more »
Cooking the tradional way aboard the Light Trow Onawind Blue
Cooking on board Ben Crawshaw’s Onawind Blue
I don’t know about you, but I find just looking at this photo of Ben’s dinner cooking on board his Light Trow named Onawind Blue sets my senses off. I’m sure I can smell this dish as it cooks.
To quote Ben: read more »
Sailing, around the world - photos
Submitted by cac on Fri, 2009-02-27 12:26Boston.com had a great set of sailing pictures recently... I really liked the juxtaposition of the classic sailing ship with the modern windmills in the first shot. read more »
Wooden toy ferry
Submitted by cac on Thu, 2009-02-26 23:10Tim, over at Chine bLog, recently built his son a toy ferry boat... designed to fit in with a wooden railroad set. Given that my son was really big in the Thomas the Tank Engine train world for a good while, I wish I had thought of it.
Of course I don't know that mine would have been as nice... good job Tim!
Airmar H2183 compass, best in class?
Airmar's new H2183 heading sensor is motion compensated every which way; i.e. it's a 3-axis solid-state compass integrated with a 3-axis accelerometer and a 3-axis rate gyro. That's news both in terms of real world compass precision and the masthead performance of Airmar's PB200 Weather Station, whose gyro only senses yaw...
Hail damage?
Submitted by v28build on Wed, 2009-02-25 22:24Between being out of town, having to work, and inclement weather part of the time, I had only looked at the boat a little bit in the daylight. Didn't see a problem with it (other than being full of water). read more »
Raymarine A-Series, hands on #1
Try as I might, my photograph (click it for bigger) still fails to truly illustrate how sharp and color rich this sample of Raymarine's new A-Series actually is. And I haven't yet subjected it to bright sunlight, which may mute the goodness considerably (hey, we've got two feet of snow on the ground here, people, and the snow banks chest high!). But I did bench test it for a couple of hours yesterday, which included...
