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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…

Putting Orion on the map

Orion's station page on AISHub

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…

Move in Day ~ October 22, 2024

The girls, our three dogs, and I left Reno, NV the morning of October 14, 2024 in the Jeep pulling an overloaded Uhaul trailer (that we lovingly referred to as “Pandora’s Box”) with all of our remaining belongings to begin…