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...

You would think a podcast from Raymarine would about RADAR, chart plotters, what kind of COAX is best, but it turns out these people actually like boats and use them! The Podcast has topics on revitalizing a used boat, fishing trips, and a few shows on chartplotting and RADAR. Really well produced (sound...

You can get updates on their support site: http://www.nobeltec.com/support/ Here's part of the press release about the affected products: Certain Nobeltec Passport chart features (including but not limited to buoys, markers, contours, underwater obstructions, etc.) may not display correctly, or at...

I get an email from YachtWorld everyday telling me about boats I want to buy but I'm not quite ready to yet and I rarely hit their website... well they've done a big re-skin adding new colors and layout to the home page. In the search side of things, which is the feature I use the most they've...

XM Radio has a deal on XM WX SatelliteXM Radio has a deal ($0 activation and 1 free month) currently going. I found out about this in the Nobeltec Newsletter and couldn't find anything on the XM Radio site about it. Here are the details for the discount: Use this promo code when you call into XM...

The Boater Information System (or BIS Portal) from the Washington Sea Grant and APL UW is a pretty cool site that allows you to overlay wind, tide, current information on a map. The site is completely custom and worked great for me in IE7.0. As an example of one of the things you do, I love this view...

This is from SlashDot a geek blog I follow. The source article doesn't offer any specfics about this product being for sale, so I'd file this away as progress being made to improve solar cells in the future. New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light GoSun wrote in with an article about new solar...

Does anyone know of something like TechShop ( http://www.techshop.ws/ ) in the Seattle area? If so, drop me a note!

Davis released Weatherlink 5.7.1, here’s the link and the update information: WeatherLink for Windows v 5.7.1 Update Version 5.7.1 Features 1. Modified Daylight Savings for 2007 new dates. 2. Included hourly and last 24-hour rain in the APRS packet. 3. Changed default APRS default server to "rotate...

If you use Microsoft Live you can contribute to some great charities while you use Live Messenger. Her’es the 411: http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/ A pretty cool campaign….