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THE MARINE INSTALLER'S RANT
A BLOG AB'OUT THE THINGS BOAT BUILDERS DO THAT COST YOU MONEY, AND
OTHER ECLECTIC NEWSY MUSINGS OF INTEREST TO BOATERS
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TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 19 , 2013
Miami boat show 2013 roundup
The numbers aren't in yet for the Miami boat show, but by
looking at the crowds on Friday, and the struggle it took to
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park, I think it is going to be a well attended show. My day
was marred by rain especially in the afternoon which
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stopped me from visiting the "In the Water" venues. As I
expected, new marine electronic product introductions have
taken a big leap. My favorite was the new Raymarine
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Dragonfly sonar, a take on the Navico "Structure Scan", but
using CHIRP technology with the brand name DownVision.
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T O KNOW ABOU T MARINE
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ELECTRONICS.
With a price of about $700 I was extremely impressed.
Panbo
This
just
fortifies
my
sense
that
we
have
just
barely scratched the surface of sonar CHIRP technology. Just
imagine this technology looking forward for obstacles, and
being able to show you a safe path through shallow waters, or
warning "Danger your boat can't go there!" Just musing out
loud.
PRACTICAL SAILOR IS THE
DEFINITIVE SOURCE FOR INFO ON
SAILBOATS OF ALL SIZES, AND
THEIR GEAR.
Practical Sailor
BUILDING A BOAT, OR THINKING
OF IT, CRAFT A CRAFT IS FOR
YOU.
Craft a Craft
BUILDING A WESTSAIL 42
SAILBOAT FROM A BARE HULL.
Westsail 42
ON BOARD WITH MARK CORKE,
BOATING DYI PROJECTS AND
MORE.
Mark Corke Boating DYI
The demo units were using real sonar data, and the high
resolution bottom and fish images were spectacular, and of
almost photographic quality.
A REAL CAPTAIN, A REAL SHIP, A
REAL MARITIME OUTLOOK
The Kennebec Captain
These units use a Raymarine in house developed transducer.
I suspect that over time will Raymarine will amp up the
wattage, for use in larger future units. The Dragonfly can do
DownVision imaging down to around 250 ft, and regular
50/200 CHIRP fish finding down to 600', all at speeds up to
20kts. I'm thinking about going treasure hunting with this
THE ECLECTIC MULLINGS OF RHYS,
AND HIS ADVENTURES WITH "S/V
ALCHEMY." WHY IS THE RUM
ALWAYS GONE?"
The world encompassed
system.
This was also my first look hands on look at the Garmin
Quatrix watch. It streams N2K data, runs your auto pilot,
gives you the tides, is a MOB device, and it also tells the time.
GCAPTAIN IS EVERYTHING
MARITIME. CHECK OUT THE BLOG,
BIGGER IS BETTER.
gCaptain
Look out Dick Tracy, your watch is now passé. Check in with
Ben Ellison at Panbo site for a lot more details on all of these
new products and more.
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BOATING INFO, LINKS, AND A
LITTLE FUN
BitterEnd Blog
TIM QUEENEY'S BOOKS AND
INTERESTING TAKES ON THE NEWS
Tim Queeney
A PORTAL TO PACIFIC NORTHWEST
CRUISING, AND A COLLECTION OF
GOOD BOATING WRITERS, AND ME.
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RESOURCES FOR THE WAY OFF
SHORE SAILOR
Ocean Navigator
FROM THE TRANSOM, TO THE BOW,
NAVGEAR TELLS YOU WHAT'S NEW
FOR YOUR BOAT.
Navgear
As I mentioned the rain, at least for me mucked up my
Friday. I had been invited to go for a ride on the Velodyne
Marine experimental vessel the Martini 1.5, but the steady
down pour quashed my hopes. I'm intrigued with the active
KVH'S BLOG, KEEP UP WITH ALL
OF YOUR SATELLITE
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
NEEDS.
KVH's blog
suspension system technology that keeps the deck stable
regardless of the sea conditions. No pitch or roll on this deck.
Drat it, I really wanted to go for a ride, and explore this
unique technology. I will try to find another opportunity
soon.
THE NEW, THE OLD, AND THE
HISTORIC. JUST AN ENGINEER
PLAYING AT BLOGGING
The Boatie Blog
"TOOLS", MY ONLINE SCI-FI
WRITING PROJECT
Tools, the online novel in the
making
AN ALMOST ENDLESS ARRAY OF
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TECHNICAL INFORMATION FOR
BOAT OWNERS AND BUILDERS.
The New Boatbuilders Page
RANDOM THOUGHTS AND RANTS ON
BOAT DESIGN, BOAT BUILDING,
AND OTHER BOAT BITS FOR THOSE
IN THE 99%..
Boat Bits
POPULAR POSTS
Fisherman's
Paradise, an
amazing five star
floating resort.
I have been watching the
rapid
morphing
kayak
into
machines.
Rod
of
the
fishing
holders,
bait wells, mirage pedal
On a gorgeous
Wednesday morning, I jump
onto a work boat loaded with
boxes, contractors, and tools.
The boat heads out of t...
drives, electric drives, and
now even outboard motors
One hundred and
are possible.
twenty seconds
The same can be said for
the paddle boards. Here is
a version on steroids, the
outboard
powered Xfish.
Described as a micro skiff,
it
can
fishing
hip
be
loaded
options
driven
free
steering.
What I like best about boat shows is visiting their tenderloin.
I could tell there is a huge public interest in paddle boards by
the large crowds at the Tower paddle board booth. It was
good to see so many older men really excited about getting
out on the water with a paddle board.
Captain Ralph Robin...
with
including
hands
It's a cool and
blustery October
day on the
Alligator-Pungo River portion of
the ICW in North Carolina.
Bob and Carol, and
Ted and Alice buy a
boat. A short Goofus
and Gallant story,
with apologies to
Highlights magazine
Sometimes I just start a story,
without knowing exactly where
it is going to take me. More often
than not, they end up in m...
Getting inky
A young mother holds a
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newborn in a RAF
hospital late at night
in England.
She remembers how
vivid
and spectacular the stars were
that ni...
Grey Goose, a 50'
Nordhavn
Pilothouse
makeover
For starters, I love
this boat. It's a stunning
Nordhavn 50' pilot house
trawler, and it's substantially
built to say the ve...
Seafair Grand Luxe
Last week I had my
head stuck under a
console for about a
couple of hours, and
when I climbed out from
underneath, and looked around.
My kee...
Installing the
Garmin GSD 24
sounder module
German glue? I know the Germans make great automobiles,
and beer, but glue? I must have missed something. Is this a
This is the first
opportunity I have
had to see or install the shiny
new GSD 24 Garmin sounder
module. This model is replacing
the venerab...
national thing? Does every country have a national glue?
What's our national glue, the slow drying Elmer's white
gooey stuff? I also couldn't figure out what these two guys
where doing, and frankly I was afraid to ask. You don't have
the boat show selling everything. Shammys, cozies, sea
I clamber onto the
boat, and nearly trip
over a large box
containing a new TV. Alright,
this must be the new
sickness meds, glues, and even wire strippers. He was
replacement for the cockpit,
to know everything.
Don't let the Grabit sign fool you, This booth was the 7-11 of
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Mothra vs the
Installer, the BFTV
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an...
Miss Geico offshore
racing boat catches
fire
The 6000 hp
turbine powered 50'
Miss Geico caught fire Saturday
afternoon during test runs off of
Lido Key in Sarasota Fl
in preparati...
Xcelerator 36 at
FLIBS
endlessly screwing in screws and removing them. I thought
of Jack Nicholson in the movie typing over and over "All
work, and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
I almost walked on
by, but something in
the scene caught my
eye. This was different, and
different was worth looking at.
The salesmen wer...
STRIP MOLDING 101 FROM
BOATBUILDER MAGAZINE
Strip Molding 101
And lastly from the "things I didn't know I needed
department" is the "Utimate Electric Fish Scaler", or more
appropriately a fish de-scaler. It claims to remove the scales
from a fish in 8 seconds. It seemed to be a well though out,
and made gadget. I'm old fashioned though so I'm staying
with the hot wax and cloth strips to remove the scales.
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There were a lot of boats there too, all out gassing styrene
and pleather fumes. I can also report most of them were
some
sort
of
a
shade
of
white.
I
will
be
seeing
the corroding cramped unfinished interiors of them as soon
as they hit the water.
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1 COMMENT:
John Blewster February 20, 2013 at 8:34 AM
The Martini 1.5 brought back a memory: The
destroyer on which I served back in the '60s had a gun
aiming system (Mk 58?) installed. The topside
mounted director was stabilized in roll - the whole
director. The operators that had to ride in it said the
change from the constant roll of the ship to a weird,
level back-&-forth (think of a high perch in the rigging
of a windjammer) resulted in instant seasickness!
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What you don't see is
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Hushpuppy exposé
Pulitzer Prize rejection
Scene of the crime
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"Holy Boat" Batman
"Oh John, it's getting dark,
there is no place to mount the
light, and I'm so afraid of
Zombies." Coming up next on
the "Shinning Light."
"Oh, watch out for that
electron avalanche storm",
with apologies to Jimmy
Buffett.
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"The Marine Installers Rant"
has a birthday.
"Tools", an on-line novel
project
132 lbs times 8
2012 BWI writing contest
A Formula 330SS update
story, you can always make it
work, you just have to be
inventive!
A Nautical Poem by W.S.
Gilbert
A Searay before and after.
Beauty is skin deep.
A Searay console get a face lift.
(click pic for bigger view)
A Yamagull and the "Bermuda
Around The Island Race"
A customer service grumble
A day in the life, the installer
goes to Garmin school.
A little to close for comfort,
ahhh, my retinas, and my
pacemaker has stopped
worki....
A new wind is a blowing
A straightened out Elite Craft,
part 2
A tale of two trim tabs
A zillion wires
Alien nuts
Alluded allision elusive
Aluminum animus
An Everglades 35 with some
very clever dockside bondage
work.
An unfortunate series of
electrical events
Anchor? We don't need no
stinking anchor, or function
follows form.
Anchors aweigh a lot, can you
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install a winch?
Andren waypoint format
conversion magic
Answers to some physics
questions
Arts and crafts. Making a
console overlay template
Autopilot 101 DIY Part 1
BOAT TRAVELS AT 65MPH
WHILE BEING RUN BY
AUTOPILOT! CITIZENS ARE
OUTRAGED, CARRY
TORCHES TO CITY HALL!
MAYOR DEMANDS
IMMEDIATE ACTION!
BP Deepwater Horizon oil
spill
Bad T-Top, go straight to your
room.
Barnacle blues and sex
Battery trial
Big trouble in Transducer
town
Bird eating spiders, and the
"World's largest air boat"
Bird odure
Birthday II
Blivet: 6" of chart plotter in a
4" space
Boat warranties, big brother is
really watching you.
Boat, you're under arrest. Put
your lines behind your stern
so we can cuff you
Boating marital issues
Boating the NASA way
Boating yin and yang
Boatswagen
Bob and Carol visit the Gulf of
Mexico oil slick, an
unfortunate series of events
occur.
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Bob and Carol, and Ted and
Alice buy a boat. A short
Goofus and Gallant story, with
apologies to Highlights
magazine
Bristol Boat TV
Burnt offerings
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzz
Cable TV Outer Limits
Cable ties, their true purpose
uncovered?
Cardboard boat racing
Carefree learning for kids,
and some adults
Catch 22
Chalk it up to.... well chalk I
guess
Cheesy boat, the movie
Chilling me softly
Chilling while inverting,
battery powered air
conditioning
Christmas day
Christmas in October, Got
QWERTY?
Clamp Clips, a really good idea
Classifieds
Cockpit TV under the arch
Combinatoric permutations of
Shackleton, his whiskey, and
the NZAHT
Congressional hearing
Convert those obsolete
LORAN TD's into Lat/Longs
sort of,,,
Cooking with the "Splendid
Galley"
Corroding conversation
Crazy mouse is dead, more
from PC purgatory.
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Daiquiri Blender
Deadliest cooking
Death hides in the bilge
Death revealed in the bilge
Debby Downer
Deep deep deep imaging
Degrees, minutes.... Hours?
Weeks? Months?
Diel, or no diel?
Digital TV conversion for your
boat DYI project
E-mail notification of new
postings option added
EdgeWater 318CC innards
perfection
Electronics face lifts, a little
snip snip, saw saw, cut, cut,
and some liquid bandages
Elementary
Elite Craft's entrails removed,
the vessel is gutted.
Endangered client species
identification
Engine NMEA 2000 crap
Entropy working towards
disorder on your boat
Experimenting with Bob the
navigator
FLIBS, oh my aching dogs
Failure to communicate
Fear and Funnels in Florida
Bay
Fifty posts plus, "To infinity
and beyond".
Film at 11:00
Fisherman Paradise revisited
after a make over
Fisherman's Paradise, an
amazing five star floating
resort.
Five chart plotters installed in
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one day, a new world record
Florida jetsam, and other
beach detritus
Form ever follows function
Friday in Hades
Gender bending, male or
female?
Getting inky
Golight Go
Good idea, epiphany of the
week
Good luck Jeremy
Goofus and Gallant explained.
Grey Goose, a 50' Nordhavn
Pilothouse makeover
Happy Thanksgiving
High tech, live fast and die
young
Hole in none
Hole of the week, and "Name
that bad boat, the new prime
time game show"
Houston, we have a problem
Hurricane preparedness
Hushpuppy exposé
I can't see clearly now, but it's
all okay
I'm Chuffed!!!
I'm mad. I'm mad. I'm really
really mad.
If the end of your shore power
cord is cooked...........
If you're buying marine
electronics, see what Ben
Ellison at Panbo has to say
about it first!
Installing the Garmin GSD 24
sounder module
Installing the Garmin GSD 26
Installing the Spot Hug
It seemed like such a good
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idea at the time.
It's Just Ducky it's a LARC V
It's golden
It's not a boat says the
Supremes
It's not about boats, but I
found this interesting, and a
bit creepy
It's one thing after another,
it's a boat.
It's the most wonderful, and
dangerous time of the year
Its moving day, no it's not, we
are just marking time.
Johnson bilge pump wiring,
"Splained to Lucy."
KVH M1 101
Killer drain
Knocked up
Lock picking tools. Mild
mannered marine installer, or
secret agent man?
Look back up at me in an old
spicy way
Loys gets Toys
MIR Birthday 3
Magnifico Yachts sealant
application memo
Marine troubleshooting
Marketing designed the helm
console, and isn't it pretty !
Mastercrafting, a temporary
Garmin install.
Meet Steve Padar
Miami boat show 2013
roundup
Minimum standards
Minor labor
Miss Geico offshore racing
boat catches fire
Mission critical, what if?
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Morons
Morons at the gate. Just what
were they thinking?
Mothra vs the Installer, the
BFTV
Mourning field
Mr Electricity prime suspect
in conflagration. Mr. Aqueous
sought as a person of interest.
My sonar is chirping, what
up?
N. E. Taylor Boatworks
NEMA, oops I mean NMEA
NMEA 2000, how do I love
thee, let me count the ways,
for now.
Neolithic yachting
Nigerian yachting
No worries mate, we are
precisely in 176.2 feet of water
O Aux, O Aux, wherefore art
thou Aux? Creating a radio
auxiliary input for your
stereo, when there isn't one. A
DYI project.
Obsolescence
Oh no, oh no, it's off to work I
go!
Oh the horror, filthy bilges ,
dirty jobs
One hundred and twenty
seconds
Oops, short lessons
Out of the closet
PC purgatory. Increased
complexity equals reduced
reliability.
Palm Beach Florida, a travel
log.
Presidential boating
Press reports of Installers
demise inaccurate.
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Primordial soup
Proprietary isn't propriety
Public chalking
Pulitzer Prize rejection
Pump up the volume, maybe?
RIP LORAN
Radar overlay heading
gyrations
Raymarine or Garmin, I can't
decide!
Ripped out, ripped off, and
other meanderings
Roadster in the house
Robotics, automation, and the
single boat builder, a short
look forward.
Rule, rules, great little
machine.
Sand castles? Hardly
Sarasota boating news
Sarasota gets a new West
Marine "Flag Ship" store.
Sarasota slamming
adventures
Scene of the crime
Sea Ray entertainment
console conceptual
reiteration, and integration.
Seafair Grand Luxe
Searay console face lift
completed (click pic for better
view)
Searay redeaux, and the
"Laws of unintended
circumstances".
Selecting the right chrip
transducer for the GSD 26
Setting limits
Sewell tames the VGA beast
Shallow water chirping
Ships log, the North Channel
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Signs of fall in Florida
So you really think you own a
fishing boat?
So you want an enlargement
of your anchor locker? The
doctor will be with you
shortly.
Software management woes
Sonic repair
Spring fore, fall aft.
Springeth forward
Steps, and second steering
stations on smaller boats,
nope, don't like them
Stick your hand in the job jar,
and pull out a couple boat
improvement projects.
Stiffening up a small Garmin
GPS
Stochastic analysis of
navigation systems single
point failures, you just can't
easily always find out what is
broken.
Straightening up an Elite Craft
String theory
Suicide terrorist sturgeons
threatening Florida.
TV surgery
Tech support Kudos 2010
Tech support kudos
Technical garbage confusion
Testing the Pearce Simpson
Gladding Islander RDF
Thank you notes
That boat ain't right, a primer.
That fish box is strong
enough, most of these guys
just use them to keep the beer
cold anyway.
That's entertainment, not!
How Machiavellian can you
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make it?
The "Yogattorney" and the
Kerala houseboats of India.
The 2010 Boston Whaler
Outrage 370, Wow!
The 2011 NMEA conference
The BitterEnd Blog
The Boating School
The Bounty Hearings
The Ehler's Garmin 5212 trip
meter fills up (Click pic for a
bigger view)
The Fusion 40 catamaran kit
The Installer's inside voice
The Murse, black is the new
pink. Tools of the trade.
The NMEA 2012 conference
The S.M.I.T.E. Awards
The SRQ boat show
The Searay 370 Venture. What
you don't see is good.
The T-top from hell, and the
little anchor light that couldn't
The accidental lesson in 72
Colregs "Lines of
Demarcation"
The angry wrathful technology
gods at work (Click pic for a
better view)
The animated Yarn of the
Nancy Belle from the BBS
The attorney's boat
The big hurry
The boat is a zinc'er
The boat show underbelly
The boat that George bought
The case of the dueling pilots.
The devil did it.
The dreaded "Cyclops
Syndrome"
The excavation, it's all your
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fault
The first Intrepid power boat,
Loys Charbonnet, and the
"Checkered Demon"
The imposter
The inquisition
The marine installer's
glossary
The nautical "Twas the Night
Before"
The no wire pull zone
The owner buys the perfect
boat
The pilot's boat
The politically incorrect
chandlery
The resurrection of Can Do III
The three hour tour and the
forces of nature
The up skirt danger
The weakest link at the bitter
end of the power cord
The world is not flat
The yacht club, rockets, and
the electron police, The quest
for the electrically perfect
marina basin.
This is all your fault
This should be easy, it's in
plain sight.
Three chart chips, two GPS's,
and an autopilot under the
tree. What I what from
vendors this Christmas
To tape or not to tape, that is
the question. A goo vs tape
analysis.
Too much tech, but not
enough lifetime.
Tools, "In Situ", and
MacGyver
Tracking the elusive shifting
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sands of the pass, or Hansel
and Gretel go into the woods
Transducer meditations
Trivia question of the month
#1
Trumpy Time In SRQ
UFO's and J boats at the same
time.
Water under troubled bridges
Watson buys a boat
Waveblade, the barnacle eater
Wedgie? Really? I'll give you a
wedgie all right
Weighty Issue
Welcome to Extendo Inc.
West Marine grand opening
fun in Sarasota
What a dumb idea, stupid,
why I oughta.....
What happened?
What it's about
What the installer wants for
the new year.
What the..... inverter
installation made easy
What's that job?
What's wrong with this
picture?
When hurricanes collide, the
Apocalypse
Where do old boats go ?
Where was the word
professional in this inverter
install?
Why didn't I think of that?
Outboard lower unit
salvation.
Why does my new boat have
obsolete equipmnt?
Xcelerator 36 at FLIBS
Yacht certified? Whats that
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mean?
You can't always get what you
want, and yes we have no
autopilots today.
You dirty rat you, you're going
to meet old sparky.
You piece of blagnab jetsam.
Zen and the art of navigation
integration. It could have been
better!
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