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ACR GlobalFix iPro By Ben Ellison \| Posted November 2008 Courtesy of ACR ACR GlobalFix iProACR's new iPro GPS EPIRB earns its "next generation" marketing tag on three counts, the most obvious one being the reassuring and... Read Article	Autopilot Garminized By Ben Ellison \| Posted November 2008 Garmin's new pilot head is as stylishly informative as its multifunction instruments.The 50-foot custom Wesmac Kathleen might have been a real autopilot challenge, what with her... Read Article
Bushnell ONIX 400 By Ben Ellison \| Posted August 2008 Bushnell ONIX 400Bushnell's Onix 400 mapping GPS is designed primarily for hikers, but I'm not the only boater to notice its ability to deliver both XM Satellite Weather and Radio... Read Article	Furuno SC-30 Satellite Compass By Ben Ellison \| Posted July 2008 Furuno SC-30 Satellite CompassFuruno's new SC-30 can sense a boat's sea motion (pitch, roll, and heave) and relationship to Earth—i.e. position, heading, COG, SOG, and ROT (... Read Article
Furuno DRS4A UHD Radar By Ben Ellison \| Posted July 2008 Furuno DRS4A UHD RadarThere's so much sizzle to Furuno's Time Zero plotting innovation, that extraordinary peripherals like its new Ultra High Definition radar and the SC-30 super... Read Article	Time Zero, Live By Ben Ellison \| Posted July 2008 MaxSea's Iker and Brice Pryzo demo the Time Zero software they developed with Furuno."You must see it on water, where the technology and boat come together as one; it's so real!"... Read Article
Jeppesen Marine Nobeltec Max Pro By Ben Ellison \| Posted May 2008 Jeppesen Marine Nobeltec Max ProWhen Jeppesen Marine took C-Map under its wing early last year, a much-anticipated consequence was the melding of Nobeltec navigation software (NSS... Read Article	Real-World AIS By Steve Dashew \| Posted May 2008 Recent reports about the 25-foot sailboat Ouzo being run down in the English Channel by the P... Read Article
Raymarine SmartPilot X Series By Ben Ellison \| Posted May 2008 Raymarine SmartPilot X SeriesRaymarine is refreshing its entire autopilot line into the SmartPilot X (SPX) Series. All SPX course computers include rate gyros for better... Read Article	Navionics HotMaps Explorer By \| Posted May 2008 Navionics HotMaps ExplorerIf you’ve ever taken a plotter—handheld or otherwise—onto lakes, you probably know how inconsistent (sometimes nonexistent) freshwater... Read Article
Pocket Navigation By Ben Ellison \| Posted May 2008 If Mae West were alive, her famously bawdy trademark line might go like this: "Hello there, sailor. Is that a WAAS GPS AIO PND loaded with a continent's worth of nautical, street... Read Article	FLIR Voyager By Ben Ellison \| Posted April 2008 Flir VoyagerFLIR has added active stabilization to its $74,999 Voyager camera, but what's truly noteworthy is its integrated use of dual thermal cameras. Each has only 320x240... Read Article
Managing the Waterway: Electronic Charts 2008 By Ben Ellison \| Posted April 2008 Managing The Waterway: Electronic Charts 2008It may be an Intracoastal Waterway guide publisher, but the name Managing the Waterway doesn't do this company justice. Neither does... Read Article	Standard Horizon HX850S By Ben Ellison \| Posted April 2008 Standard Horizon HX850SCredit due: Uniden built the first handheld combination GPS/ VHF, but the Mystic was quite bulky and expensive and is now out of production. Standard... Read Article
Simrad NX40/45 By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2008 Simrad NX40/45Simrad is refreshing almost its entire product lineup in 2008. The major themes are the extended use of SimNet (a.k.a. NMEA 2000) and the "Simradization" of... Read Article	Simrad AP 24 and AP 28 By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 Simrad AP 28Simrad's two new autopilot control heads, the AP 28 (above) and the smaller, knobless AP 24, may look like minor upgrades to the revered Simrad (Robertson) line, but... Read Article
3D & G By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 The competition is fierce, and I'm not just talking about the grandiose debuts held simultaneously and almost chin-to-chin across a Fort Lauderdale boulevard the evening before... Read Article	Navionics Platinum+ By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 Navionics Platinum+As the ever-so-slight name change implies, "plus" is only an incremental change from the original multifaceted Platinum format, mainly offering improved... Read Article
Standard Horizon CPV555 By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 Standard Horizon CPV555Combine a top-the-line VHF radio with a competent chartplotter/fishfinder, and you get Standard Horizon's unusual and under-appreciated CPV series, which... Read Article	AmbientNAV Alpha By Ben Ellison \| Posted November 2007 AmbientNAV AlphaWest Coast-based AmbientNav has introduced a new monitor line named Alpha, as in "alpha dog." This leader-of-the-pack boast is based on high-end specs like 170-... Read Article
Where To? By Ben Ellison \| Posted September 2007 The four units displayed in my test lab below—ranging from the diminutive 440 all the way up to the touch-screen 5212—are a good representation of the five... Read Article	Riding on Penobscot Pilot By Ben Ellison \| Posted August 2007 Huge freighters and tankers may frighten us small boaters, but they're also fascinating. I mean, how do you maneuver and dock a single-screw mountain of steel that's optimized for... Read Article
Magellan Crossover By Ben Ellison \| Posted August 2007 In some ways Magellan's Crossover fulfills the navigate-anywhere promise even better than the Lowrance iWay 600c reviewed here last month. Compact, tough, and battery-powered, it... Read Article	Franson GpsGate 2.5 By Ben Ellison \| Posted August 2007 GpsGate started as a simple utility that let GPS data coming into a PC or PDA serial port work with many programs simultaneously. The latest $30 version extends the concept to... Read Article
Tiki Navigator Pro By Ben Ellison \| Posted August 2007 Tiki Navigator is a particularly straightforward charting program with a clean, colorful interface. All sorts of help facilities, like those shown, are available but only show... Read Article	McMurdo SmartFind By Ben Ellison \| Posted May 2007 Similar to ACR’s ResQFix PLB, McMurdo has introduced a GEPIRB (GPS-equipped Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) that's smaller yet supposedly performs better. The $849, 1.... Read Article

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