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Seeing the ships we couldn’t see
In the last post we started feeding the AIS700 to AISHub. This one is about the return leg: pulling every vessel AISHub knows about within a couple of hundred miles onto the Raymarine plotters, so we see traffic well beyond VHF range. That’s the half we actually wanted for the…
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Putting Orion on the map
We’re preparing for a Pacific crossing, and one of the things we want before we go is more AIS on the chart plotter than the AIS700 can hear on its own. VHF range is twenty miles or so. The ocean is bigger than that. The idea has two halves, and…
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Preparations For Leaving the Dock ~ November 2024
We spent the entire month of November 2024 organizing, making improvements, focusing on repairs, and other needed preparations. Jason spent several months before moving onto the boat working with a company that specializes in DC electrical systems in RVs to design a solution on our boat that would allow us…