One of the first things we removed from the boat when we purchased it was the built in stereo which didn’t work, and was way outdated. The stereo was located behind the mirrored door on the starboard side to the right of the stairs up to the pilot house. That stereo was someone audiophile sweet
For my birthday the boys got me some new charts for the Simrad. Something I did not even know was available. The charts are really nice as they add much more detail and contour lines. They just pop into the Simrad and you get a second option for how the charts look. I am pleased
Today we added the Simrad NSS 9 on the flybridge. Even though this is the smaller of our two NSS units, it has all the power of the NSS 16 with a more compact screen. This is a very nice addition to the Simrad suite of electronics that we have onboard. Networked with Simrad Ethernet
After getting a backup camera on my pickup truck and realizing how nice it was, I decided to do something similar on the boat. I started with 2 WiFi surveilance cameras that I will be able to view on the 23 inch screen that we mounted in the pilothouse. They are also viewable from my
An important part of boating is having the appropriate boat music. Being the off season, I figured it was time to build a new playlist for boat music. Last season we used Pandora, but there were a few locations where the network was a bit spotty and Pandora didn’t do the best job. With the
We ordered our Simrad equipment a while back, and some if has been delayed due to Covid and other circumstances. Several weeks ago we did the Simrad VHF radio install, and this week the Simrad NSS16 evo3S 16 inch Multifunction Fish Finder and Chartplotter arrived. When we purchased the boat, the configuration looked like this
Since the VHF radio, and the stereo on the fly bridge did not work, I decided to replace them with a new Fusion stereo, power outlets, and when it arrives the remote handset for the VHF radio. Here is what things looked like to begin with, a dead VHF radio, a holster for some icon
Chatting with a neighbor the other day, who has a view of where we dock our boat, they made a comment about how smooth our docking process was. No screaming and yelling, just a nice controlled arrival at the dock. It might look that way, but it doesn’t always feel that way. Being at either
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