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Navigation Electronics Safety and Cautions By Capt. Daniel S.... \| Posted May 2013 Relying on navigation electronics is a double-edged sword. Trust is necessary, along with constant doubt. Only together can these diametrically opposed conditions work to get us... Read Article	Simrad GS25 By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted March 2013 More satellites, more precise positioning. Simrad’s new GS25 is a GPS antenna and a GLONASS antenna, all in one tidy package. Read Article
FLIR MD-324 Thermal-Imaging Camera By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted March 2013 FLIR launched the MD-324 as one of the company’s MD-Series of fixed-mount thermal-imaging cameras. The cameras are simple to mount and easy to integrate into existing... Read Article	Garmin GPSMAP 8000 Series By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted March 2013 Garmin’s GPSMAP 8000 Series Combines Power and Simplicity. Read Article
Raymarine Dragonfly By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted March 2013 Add a CHIRP sounder system, in a bracket-mount standalone unit. Raymarine Dragonfly may be the buzz on the fishing docks this spring. Read Article	Garmin BlueChart Mobile By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2013 There was significant news regarding Garmin’s BlueChart Mobile app (BCM). In fact, anyone with a relatively current iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone—that is, one that’s running iOS 6... Read Article
New Alternatives to GPS By Tim Bartlett \| Posted March 2013 GPS is here to stay with satellites in the pipeline. But devices such as the iPhone 5 and Garmin GPSMap 7215 can take advantage of other systems too. Read Article	Digital Processing Radar By Tim Bartlett \| Posted March 2013 Radar shows us what we cannot see, due to distance, fog, and darkness. But the way it does that is undergoing a major change, and we wanted to know more. Tim Bartlett learned all... Read Article
Digital Yacht Aqua 50 Marine PC By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted February 2013 PCs can be a great addition to your electronics array, so long as you pick the right one. Read Article	C-Map Plan2Nav Mobile App By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted February 2013 The Plan2Nav app from C-Map provides chartplotting capability to GPS-enabled handheld mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod, as well as those with the Android... Read Article
FLIR First Mate II MS-224b By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted February 2013 FLIR’s new handheld thermal-imaging scope uses Instalert to help you to find your target. Read Article	Lowrance Elite-7 Chartplotter/Fishfinder By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted January 2013 Charts and fishfinding functions share the screen seamlessly in the Lowrance Elite 7 HDI. Read Article
Raymarine LightHouse v5 Software By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted January 2013 Raymarine updated its LightHouse software, which directs the user experience for the company’s a-, c-, and e-Series multifunction displays. Read Article	Navionics SonarCharts By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted January 2013 Navionics’s SonarCharts use sonar logs from users, along with data from the hydrographic office and proprietary surveys to add detail to a layer of cartography. Read Article
Forward-Looking Sonar By Peter Swanson \| Posted December 2012 As Interphase Technologies joins Garmin, forward-looking sonar may get a boost. Read Article	Look-Ahead Speed on Garmin GPSMAP 7212 displays By Capt. Bill Pike \| Posted November 2012 How To Double Down on Radar Read Article
Lowrance HDS-9 Gen2 Touch By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted October 2012 You may not have looked at Lowrance lately. That’s because you’ve never seen anything like this before: The HDS-9 Gen2 Touch. It’s got a lot of functions you may... Read Article	C-Map 4D By Jason Y. Wood \| Posted August 2012 Customize chart data for your kind of cruising with C-MAP’s 4D charts. Read Article
Wireless Boats By Tim Bartlett \| Posted June 2012 Your helm may create its own Wi-Fi network and share data with you wirelessly. Read Article	Delorme InReach By Peter Swanson \| Posted June 2012 A two-way satellite communicator with GPS, the InReach belongs to an exciting and relatively new category; it’s a Satellite Early Notification Device (SEND). Read Article
Furuno NavNet TZtouch By Peter Swanson \| Posted June 2012 The NavNet TZtouch multifunction diplay is the first ever to boast dual-touch screens with functionality like an iPad. Read Article	Threats to GPS from Land-Based Signal Boosters By Tim Bartlett \| Posted May 2012 Defending the bandwidth for GPS. Read Article
Simrad Argus Radar By Tim Bartlett \| Posted March 2012 Simrad adds the radar technology it developed for recreational boats to a system for ships and megayachts. Read Article	A Breakdown of Protocol: how boats’ systems converse. By Tim Bartlett \| Posted February 2012 Know how the components of your helm—and the rest of the boat—communicate. Read Article
Whole-Boat Electronics By PMY Staff \| Posted February 2012 Think about each component of your boat’s electronics to create a powerful system that’s greater than the sum of its parts. Read Article	Si-Tex Vector 3D By Tim Bartlett \| Posted November 2011 Si-Tex has introduced a new, ultra-compact GPS compass that it says is the smallest on the market... Read Article

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