The Marine Installer's Rant

When I visit my local West Marine its now like I'm walking into a department store. I  pass by all of the soft good fashions wearing m...

Installing marine electronics on boats requires tools and gear. I have lots of this stuff. So much that often the problem is in locating w...

Local fisherman John Yates prevailed in the Supreme court on Wednesday. The wheels of justice had eventually ground slowly and in this cas...

Written By Tim Mathews and Bill Bishop. The Internet of Things is a grand concept more than a thing. It describes interconnection t...

I'm installing a GOST Nav-Tracker system today, and this is a piece of cake technically. Doing it well however takes some ingenuity. W...

"Can you install these transducers without a fairing block?" I was asked. "I don't know, what transducers?" came m...

Even as bankruptcies go this was fast, and well planned. As the ink was drying on the Judge's paperwork. about 1700 stores headed off...

The pressure is on. You've been invited to the big party on the yacht again and the painful memory of your last appetizer effort still...

There is a reason the brothers were called Grimm. While researching tracks in general I found an early precursor to our modern chartplot...

There are interesting contrasts between a car and a boat. I'll start with the car. An average car has on the order of about 30,000 pa...

To say the boat owner was upset was an understatement. The boat had nearly thrown himself and it's occupants into the drink. Without ...

Design Requirement Specifications for Marine Electronics Installations 1.0 Scope: This specification applies to all recreational a...

“CALVIN:  This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?  If the guy exists why...

The air was thick with the smell of burnt venison as I pushed my way through the crowd of elves and reindeer. I broke into the clearing an...

I'd like to say it was the perfect storm, but it was all too ordinary in my world. Older tech meets new tech but it needs to engage ...

Truth be told most Floridians don't like boats. They are viewed at the very minimum as an inconvenience and at the worst boaters are ...

Hi Suri, I seem to have a problem. Is it something about your boat again Dave? Ah,   possibly Suri, I may have hit another rock or someth...

There is nothing quite like the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Three million square feet, almost 70 acres of boats. The odor ...

Many thanks to all who read and helped. Never in my wildest dreams did I think this number could occur when I first started on that fatefu...

Do you need to take out a second mortgage whenever work is done on your boat? Then the Boater's Maintenance Academy is the place for ...

The average boat's coax cable TV backbone wiring at the best can be now be describe as venerable, and at the worst outmoded technolo...

At first glance IBEX looks like any other boat show. The Mercs, Yamas, and Suzys were clustered together in outboard land. Companies li...

Rules and laws like everything else come in flavors like good, obscure, and unwritten. Some are codified into our laws, some are not, and ...