If you're a MAC (not me) or an iPhone (me) user you should head over and check out MacSailing.Net . It's a good forum about sailing software for the MAC and iPhone including Mr. Tides and iNavX the iPhone version of GPS NavX . Only about 800 users, but nonetheless if your a MAC or iPhone user...

NOAA just (well I just found out about it) setup a new online chart browser of all their nautical charts, which you can access here: http://www.nautical-charts.gov/viewer/#OnLine From the list of charts you are shown two views of the chart one of the whole chart with a pointer to where you are on the...

I’m not own a MAC so I can’t speak as to how I personally like this program, but the folks over at Scout Report have yet to let me down yet, so I thought I’d share this link. Mr. Tides 2.5.5.2 http://homepage.mac.com/augusth/MrTides/ For persons who make their livelihood on the world’s seas and oceans...

I run this little app on my home PC and I have the timezones for where all my friends are hangin’ out. Its pretty nice. Its especially handy for sailing and HAM radio because you always need to know when ZULU or GMT is. Anyway, you can download a fully functional demo for a few days. Dear Patrick, As...

I’m going to throw down some links and some basics here. I’m not an expert at this stuff, by any means, but I’ll try to point you in the right direction. WiFi works line of site, your antenna needs to ‘see’ their antenna. Unlike SSB where you can bounce the signal off of clouds, the atmosphere and all...

Panbo's Marine Electronics & Communications Weblog: Google Earth again, marine mashups . Panbo, (as usual) does a great job pointing out some very cool stuff in charting. With the Advent of Google Maps , Google Earth , Virtual Earth , and the free publication of NOAA charts it was inevitable that...

I just heard that Tacktick , the wireless instrumentation packages will soon be standard equipment on all boats in the Sunsail charter fleet. I’m very interested in the reliability of Tacktick and wireless in general, so I’m very excited about the shear number of units which are going to be installed...

This was kind of a strange entry to be in Engadget, but there it was nonetheless. A doctoral student in Sweden is working on a system that calculates positions by using on-board systems like RADAR and SONAR to determine where a vessel is located based on the surroundings and known chart data, like depth...