Maintenance NMEA 2000

Today our ship will make a step forward into a new generation of electronic systems. I will install a new generation bus system, NMEA 2000. This bus is quite practical because it interconnects all instruments and exchanges all information (wind, speed, log, gps, ais, autopilot, and engine supervision). This is a great advantage (only one cable) and at the same time its biggest disadvantage. There is absolutely no redundancy. If this bus fails all instruments, except the plotter fail. The solution is an old fashion Forumo GPS as backup. Later I have to replace step by step the vdo sl instruments.

Maintenance Marine VHF

The ship is equipped with an very old VHF Radio, the Sailtron RT 80. In some way I like it very much, so I would like to use it for inshore Nederland. Unfortunately I couldn't find a way (yet) to change the MMSI ATIS number. So bad luck I go for a new model to have a radio for mid Mai for our first coming trip.

Sailtron RT80

I decided to go for a Lowrance LVR 880:

The order is placed, a post about the installation will follow soon.