Today's adventure: seeking #sailing electronics.

One can #sail most places with a few #charts and tools, a #DepthSounder, and hopefully a pair of binoculars. Modern sounders are a marvel of technology - a standard #transducer reports through-water speed, water temp, angle of heel… and depth.

A #GPS device is now considered standard, though most people rely on their mobile phone. A #ChartPlotter is a better tool, and can display sensor information too.

But not exactly free…

Sadly, it does not appear anyone associated with #OpenCPN on Mastodon is connected to my host. Sad, because this is a fabulous FLOSSy #ChartPlotter #Navigator and #Quadrature_du_Net is always supportive of opensource.

Regardless, I want to give a shout-out to Leamas, who is doing an outstanding job of bug-wrangling at least on the flathub org.opencpn.OpenCPN repo.

https://github.com/leamas

1st full length YouTube video is up on my channel EngineerSailing
It is a comparison of navigation charts going down the Tennessee River from Chattanooga TN to Grand Rivers Kentucky

@argonavigation @raymarine
#sailboat #ericson36 #boatlife #cruising #marina #chartplotter #map #gps

Last weekend, sailed up to the village #Portpatrick in #Scotland and got admire the beautiful scenery and meet some really nice people, I would have liked to have stayed a bit longer however I had to get back to Belfast for work on Monday.

#Sailing #Navdesk #Chartplotter #VHF #BatteryMonitor #UnitedKingdom