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Subject: Re: TWL: Marine Electronics
From: Keith (klemmons@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 12:56:17 EDT
The main thing you're going to have to look at is the daylight
viewability of the screen. A regular laptop won't cut it. The daylight
viewable monitors (especially the weather resistant ones) are really
expensive. If you were to set up a regular computer down, with a weather
resistant monitor up top, you would probably spend as much as
you would have on a "marine" laptop. OTOH, think about what would be
involved in moving the computer in case of bad weather. Shut down your
navigation system, maybe radar too if you had them integrated. Move
everything downstairs, rehook up, reboot and hope it works. PITA. I have
a PH motor yacht, and the only nav. up on the fly bridge is a compass. I
have a handheld GPS/Chartplotter that I can carry up there if I need it,
but my thinking is that if the weather's good, you don't need a whole
lot of fancy electronics. If the weather turns bad, you'll be inside
anyway, so that's where the majority of stuff should go. This advice of
course is worth exactly what you paid for it!
Kerry and Jane Alexander wrote:
> Our boat came absent of vital electronics such as a radar, GPS, chartplotter
> and autopilot. Since we will be doing the Great Loop we need to outfit our
> boat and are in the midst of total confusion. We like the idea of using a
> PC with navigation software. (We have looked at Nobeltec.) With an up and
> down helm, how much trouble is it moving a laptop computer from one to the
> other should sudden bad weather appear?
-- __________________ Keith "When a crisis hits and you don't have to change your politics, you know you were right all along." - Matt Bell _______________________________________________ http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawler-world-list
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