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Marine Electronics for Every Size Boat, Part 5 – How an Autopilot Works: Having an auto-pilot is like having another person on board that doesn’t talk back, and Kim shows us how smart the...

Marine Electronics For Every Size Boat, Part 3—Small Multi-Function Display for Power Boat: Here’s a low cost multi-function display between a handheld chartplotter and a full blown system — did he say it...

Marine Electronics For Every Size Boat, Part 4 – Basic NMEA 2000 System for a Sailboat: With a new marine electronics system for your sailboat, pretty much all that’s left to do is mix the cocktails, ri...

Marine Electronics for Every Size Boat, Part 2 – Handheld VHF Radio: Maybe we dosed off for a few years, because we thought VHF radios were all pretty much the same. That is, until we sat d...

Marine Electronics for Every Size Boat, Part 1 – Handheld GPS Chartplotter (vs. Smart Phone): We thought we knew a thing or two about gear for our boats, but then again — we thought having a smart phone with a na...

Coastal Navigation, Part 3 – Finding Latitude, Longitude, & Distance on Charts: Jane Ahlfeld walks us through the process of finding latitude, longitude, and distance on nautical charts for when you a...

Coastal Navigation, Part 2 – How To Use Charts with a Navigator’s Eye: Jane shows us a few tricks to of how to know whether that island in from of you is what it looks like, how to establish...

Coastal Navigation, Part 1 – Charts & Buoys: Nautical charts contain a wide range of numbers and symbols, each transmitting critical information to the mariner. This...

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