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Boats & Boatwork

First we choose a boat, then we spend the rest of our lives working on it.

This is the section of the site for these topics. Read about Choosing Boats or you can look up Performance Parameters for various boats and compare them.

AIS Receiver: a Must Have for Peace of Mind

January 31, 2015 Leave a Comment

Although AIS transmitters are great if you can afford them, an AIS receiver is worth its weight in gold – or at least the $200 which seems to be about the minimum for a new model. The ships appear as triangular objects on your navigation software, pointed in direction of travel, with the ship’s name […]

Filed Under: Nav/Comm Tagged With: ais, equipment, vhf antenna splitter

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