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Gents/ Ladies,
I just bought a new boat and plan to upgrade the whole instrument and nav array. I think I am getting some sponsoring from Raymarine for my trip, but I have to install the stuff myself.
Ideally I'd setup a Navpod with a few instruments (wind speed depth) at the helm, a repeater ST70 below at the station and a chartplotter connected to Radar and GPS. I'd then use a laptop as backup with C-maps or other system with a GPS backup.
Here's the question: can I install most of this electronic stuff myself or is it hard work which requires a lot of finetuning? I read numerous posts on the web with people having issues with seatalk and other NMEA interfacing... I thought with progress of time it had all become reasonably plug and play...
Thoughts?
JP
I just bought a new boat and plan to upgrade the whole instrument and nav array. I think I am getting some sponsoring from Raymarine for my trip, but I have to install the stuff myself.
Ideally I'd setup a Navpod with a few instruments (wind speed depth) at the helm, a repeater ST70 below at the station and a chartplotter connected to Radar and GPS. I'd then use a laptop as backup with C-maps or other system with a GPS backup.
Here's the question: can I install most of this electronic stuff myself or is it hard work which requires a lot of finetuning? I read numerous posts on the web with people having issues with seatalk and other NMEA interfacing... I thought with progress of time it had all become reasonably plug and play...
Thoughts?
JP