The Marine Installer's Rant

It's the bottom of the ninth. The Rays are ahead, and closing pitcher Fernando Rodney is hurling balls at the plate with speeds nearin...

It's a bit of a misnomer to call these vessels boats, yes they float and travel on the water, but beyond that they bare little resembl...

It was a good service call, and it's all over in about 30 minutes. It was a 2007 KVH M4 dome that stopped acquiring the DirecTV satel...

The lovely, and most aptly named West Marine associate Marina agreed to pose in front of her hand crafted Hurricane preparedness poster. I...

Looking around the N. E. Taylor boatyard, my eyes passed over a small sloop, and then immediately snapped back. That's a Carl Alberg ...

It's not uncommon prior to the annual  Suncoast Super Boat Grand Prix offshore boat races that I get some chores to do, and this year...

The navigation gear works well, but it's old enough to have been purchased from Ye Olde Marine Electronics Chandlery, and the NMEA int...

Timmy, we just sold the bow rider, and we will have to deliver the boat with a battery. Here is a bag of coppers. Take them to the market...

The captain successfully single hands the down east style yacht out of the Lake Okeechobee Mayaca lock. He throttles up headed toward Stua...

This is euphemistically an access hatch, and a poor excuse for one at that. It would have been better if it was actually more than margina...

I'm a bit weather obsessed. No it's worse that. I'm a decent amateur meteorologist, but note I do not claim by any known stand...

Your word is "singerie." "singerie, did I pronounce it right?" "Yes, singerie." "What is the part of sp...

"If you imagine it's possible, someone else is already trying to doing it, or has already done it." The Installer. Th...

"Frank, long time no hear, what's up?" "I need a GPS Bill, I'm maybe thinking about racing one of my boats in a new...

Six weeks ago I embarked on what should have been a  fairly mundane task of getting NMEA data from a GPS and some older Simrad gear impor...

Behold the flooded lead acid battery, unfortunately a perennial favorite of all too many boaters. Why? They cost less than better battery ...

I was excited. A week in Palm Springs, a place I had never been. Looking around online I found there were lots of things to do. Go canyon...

MEMORANDUM FOR:  John LaPoint, chief of marine vessel tracking directorate. FROM:  Bob Aliason, R&D manager, personnel tracking gro...

Being a shewed observer of human behavior I have noted some traits that seem to be common to most used boat sales. The first is that when ...

Recently a Florida man, of course it's a Florida man, inadvertently or at least I hope so, shot himself in the groin with a marine fla...

"Igor, I'm ready, hand me the brain, and my magnifying glasses. Give me a little space Igor, and what have you been using for mou...

I was surprised I was even invited to see it. I met the boat at a private dock, and departed for a two hour cruise. This nav system looked...

Just as soon as the Wright Brothers figured out how to get an airplane off the ground, inventors were trying to get them to work on water....