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Miami boat show 2013 roundup The numbers aren't in yet for the Miami boat show, but by

looking at the crowds on Friday, and the struggle it took to

park, I think it is going to be a well attended show. My day

was marred by rain especially in the afternoon which

stopped me from visiting the "In the Water" venues. As I

expected, new marine electronic product introductions have

taken a big leap. My favorite was the new Raymarine

Dragonfly sonar, a take on the Navico "Structure Scan", but

using CHIRP technology with the brand name Down Vision.

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With a price of about $700 I was extremely impressed.

This just fortifies my sense that we have justbarely scratched the surface of sonar CHIRP technology. Justimagine this technology looking forward for obstacles, andbeing able to show you a safe path through shallow waters, orwarning "Danger your boat can't go there!" Just musing outloud.

The demo units were using real sonar data, and the highresolution bottom and fish images were spectacular, and ofalmost photographic quality.

These units use a Raymarine in house developed transducer.I suspect that over time will Raymarine will amp up thewattage, for use in larger future units. The Dragonfly can doDownVision imaging down to around 250 ft, and regular50/200 CHIRP fish finding down to 600', all at speeds up to20kts. I'm thinking about going treasure hunting with thissystem.

This was also my first look hands on look at the GarminQuatrix watch. It streams N2K data, runs your auto pilot,gives you the tides, is a MOB device, and it also tells the time.Look out Dick Tracy, your watch is now passé. Check in withBen Ellison at Panbo site for a lot more details on all of thesenew products and more.

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As I mentioned the rain, at least for me mucked up myFriday. I had been invited to go for a ride on the VelodyneMarine experimental vessel the Martini 1.5, but the steadydown pour quashed my hopes. I'm intrigued with the activesuspension system technology that keeps the deck stableregardless of the sea conditions. No pitch or roll on this deck.Drat it, I really wanted to go for a ride, and explore thisunique technology. I will try to find another opportunitysoon.

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I have been watching therapid morphing of thekayak into fishingmachines. Rod holders,bait wells, mirage pedaldrives, electric drives, andnow even outboard motorsare possible.

The same can be said forthe paddle boards. Here isa version on steroids, theoutboard powered Xfish.Described as a micro skiff,it can be loaded withfishing options includinghip driven hands freesteering.

What I like best about boat shows is visiting their tenderloin.I could tell there is a huge public interest in paddle boards bythe large crowds at the Tower paddle board booth. It wasgood to see so many older men really excited about gettingout on the water with a paddle board.

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Alligator-Pungo River portion ofthe ICW in North Carolina.Captain Ralph Robin...

Bob and Carol, andTed and Alice buy aboat. A short Goofusand Gallant story,with apologies to

Highlights magazine

Sometimes I just start a story,without knowing exactly whereit is going to take me. More oftenthan not, they end up in m...

Getting inky

A young mother holds a


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German glue? I know the Germans make great automobiles,and beer, but glue? I must have missed something. Is this anational thing? Does every country have a national glue?What's our national glue, the slow drying Elmer's whitegooey stuff? I also couldn't figure out what these two guyswhere doing, and frankly I was afraid to ask. You don't haveto know everything.

Don't let the Grabit sign fool you, This booth was the 7-11 ofthe boat show selling everything. Shammys, cozies, seasickness meds, glues, and even wire strippers. He was

newborn in a RAFhospital late at nightin England.She remembers howvivid

and spectacular the stars werethat ni...

Grey Goose, a 50'NordhavnPilothousemakeover

For starters, I lovethis boat. It's a stunningNordhavn 50' pilot housetrawler, and it's substantiallybuilt to say the ve...

Seafair Grand Luxe

Last week I had myhead stuck under aconsole for about acouple of hours, and

when I climbed out fromunderneath, and looked around.My kee...

Installing theGarmin GSD 24sounder module

This is the firstopportunity I have

had to see or install the shinynew GSD 24 Garmin soundermodule. This model is replacingthe venerab...

Mothra vs theInstaller, the BFTV

I clamber onto theboat, and nearly tripover a large box

containing a new TV. Alright,this must be the newreplacement for the cockpit,


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endlessly screwing in screws and removing them. I thoughtof Jack Nicholson in the movie typing over and over "Allwork, and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

And lastly from the "things I didn't know I neededdepartment" is the "Utimate Electric Fish Scaler", or moreappropriately a fish de-scaler. It claims to remove the scalesfrom a fish in 8 seconds. It seemed to be a well though out,and made gadget. I'm old fashioned though so I'm stayingwith the hot wax and cloth strips to remove the scales.

an...

Miss Geico offshoreracing boat catchesfire

The 6000 hpturbine powered 50'

Miss Geico caught fire Saturdayafternoon during test runs off ofLido Key in Sarasota Flin preparati...

Xcelerator 36 atFLIBS

I almost walked onby, but something inthe scene caught my

eye. This was different, anddifferent was worth looking at.The salesmen wer...

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There were a lot of boats there too, all out gassing styreneand pleather fumes. I can also report most of them weresome sort of a shade of white. I will be seeingthe corroding cramped unfinished interiors of them as soonas they hit the water.

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John Blewster February 20, 2013 at 8:34 AM

The Martini 1.5 brought back a memory: Thedestroyer on which I served back in the '60s had a gunaiming system (Mk 58?) installed. The topsidemounted director was stabilized in roll - the wholedirector. The operators that had to ride in it said thechange from the constant roll of the ship to a weird,level back-&-forth (think of a high perch in the riggingof a windjammer) resulted in instant seasickness!

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132 lbs times 8

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A Nautical Poem by W.S.Gilbert

A Searay before and after.Beauty is skin deep.

A Searay console get a face lift.(click pic for bigger view)

A Yamagull and the "BermudaAround The Island Race"

A customer service grumble

A day in the life, the installergoes to Garmin school.

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A zillion wires

Alien nuts

Alluded allision elusive

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Andren waypoint formatconversion magic

Answers to some physicsquestions

Arts and crafts. Making aconsole overlay template

Autopilot 101 DIY Part 1

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BP Deepwater Horizon oilspill

Bad T-Top, go straight to yourroom.

Barnacle blues and sex

Battery trial

Big trouble in Transducertown

Bird eating spiders, and the"World's largest air boat"

Bird odure

Birthday II

Blivet: 6" of chart plotter in a4" space

Boat warranties, big brother isreally watching you.

Boat, you're under arrest. Putyour lines behind your sternso we can cuff you

Boating marital issues

Boating the NASA way

Boating yin and yang

Boatswagen

Bob and Carol visit the Gulf ofMexico oil slick, anunfortunate series of eventsoccur.


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Bob and Carol, and Ted andAlice buy a boat. A shortGoofus and Gallant story, withapologies to Highlightsmagazine

Bristol Boat TV

Burnt offerings

Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Cable TV Outer Limits

Cable ties, their true purposeuncovered?

Cardboard boat racing

Carefree learning for kids,and some adults

Catch 22

Chalk it up to.... well chalk Iguess

Cheesy boat, the movie

Chilling me softly

Chilling while inverting,battery powered airconditioning

Christmas day

Christmas in October, GotQWERTY?

Clamp Clips, a really good idea

Classifieds

Cockpit TV under the arch

Combinatoric permutations ofShackleton, his whiskey, andthe NZAHT

Congressional hearing

Convert those obsoleteLORAN TD's into Lat/Longssort of,,,

Cooking with the "SplendidGalley"

Corroding conversation

Crazy mouse is dead, morefrom PC purgatory.


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Daiquiri Blender

Deadliest cooking

Death hides in the bilge

Death revealed in the bilge

Debby Downer

Deep deep deep imaging

Degrees, minutes.... Hours?Weeks? Months?

Diel, or no diel?

Digital TV conversion for yourboat DYI project

E-mail notification of newpostings option added

EdgeWater 318CC innardsperfection

Electronics face lifts, a littlesnip snip, saw saw, cut, cut,and some liquid bandages

Elementary

Elite Craft's entrails removed,the vessel is gutted.

Endangered client speciesidentification

Engine NMEA 2000 crap

Entropy working towardsdisorder on your boat

Experimenting with Bob thenavigator

FLIBS, oh my aching dogs

Failure to communicate

Fear and Funnels in FloridaBay

Fifty posts plus, "To infinityand beyond".

Film at 11:00

Fisherman Paradise revisitedafter a make over

Fisherman's Paradise, anamazing five star floatingresort.

Five chart plotters installed in


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one day, a new world record

Florida jetsam, and otherbeach detritus

Form ever follows function

Friday in Hades

Gender bending, male orfemale?

Getting inky

Golight Go

Good idea, epiphany of theweek

Good luck Jeremy

Goofus and Gallant explained.

Grey Goose, a 50' NordhavnPilothouse makeover

Happy Thanksgiving

High tech, live fast and dieyoung

Hole in none

Hole of the week, and "Namethat bad boat, the new primetime game show"

Houston, we have a problem

Hurricane preparedness

Hushpuppy exposé

I can't see clearly now, but it'sall okay

I'm Chuffed!!!

I'm mad. I'm mad. I'm reallyreally mad.

If the end of your shore powercord is cooked...........

If you're buying marineelectronics, see what BenEllison at Panbo has to sayabout it first!

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Installing the Garmin GSD 26

Installing the Spot Hug

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idea at the time.

It's Just Ducky it's a LARC V

It's golden

It's not a boat says theSupremes

It's not about boats, but Ifound this interesting, and abit creepy

It's one thing after another,it's a boat.

It's the most wonderful, anddangerous time of the year

Its moving day, no it's not, weare just marking time.

Johnson bilge pump wiring,"Splained to Lucy."

KVH M1 101

Killer drain

Knocked up

Lock picking tools. Mildmannered marine installer, orsecret agent man?

Look back up at me in an oldspicy way

Loys gets Toys

MIR Birthday 3

Magnifico Yachts sealantapplication memo

Marine troubleshooting

Marketing designed the helmconsole, and isn't it pretty !

Mastercrafting, a temporaryGarmin install.

Meet Steve Padar

Miami boat show 2013roundup

Minimum standards

Minor labor

Miss Geico offshore racingboat catches fire

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Morons

Morons at the gate. Just whatwere they thinking?

Mothra vs the Installer, theBFTV

Mourning field

Mr Electricity prime suspectin conflagration. Mr. Aqueoussought as a person of interest.

My sonar is chirping, whatup?

N. E. Taylor Boatworks

NEMA, oops I mean NMEA

NMEA 2000, how do I lovethee, let me count the ways,for now.

Neolithic yachting

Nigerian yachting

No worries mate, we areprecisely in 176.2 feet of water

O Aux, O Aux, wherefore artthou Aux? Creating a radioauxiliary input for yourstereo, when there isn't one. ADYI project.

Obsolescence

Oh no, oh no, it's off to work Igo!

Oh the horror, filthy bilges ,dirty jobs

One hundred and twentyseconds

Oops, short lessons

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PC purgatory. Increasedcomplexity equals reducedreliability.

Palm Beach Florida, a travellog.

Presidential boating

Press reports of Installersdemise inaccurate.


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Primordial soup

Proprietary isn't propriety

Public chalking

Pulitzer Prize rejection

Pump up the volume, maybe?

RIP LORAN

Radar overlay headinggyrations

Raymarine or Garmin, I can'tdecide!

Ripped out, ripped off, andother meanderings

Roadster in the house

Robotics, automation, and thesingle boat builder, a shortlook forward.

Rule, rules, great littlemachine.

Sand castles? Hardly

Sarasota boating news

Sarasota gets a new WestMarine "Flag Ship" store.

Sarasota slammingadventures

Scene of the crime

Sea Ray entertainmentconsole conceptualreiteration, and integration.

Seafair Grand Luxe

Searay console face liftcompleted (click pic for betterview)

Searay redeaux, and the"Laws of unintendedcircumstances".

Selecting the right chriptransducer for the GSD 26

Setting limits

Sewell tames the VGA beast

Shallow water chirping

Ships log, the North Channel


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Signs of fall in Florida

So you really think you own afishing boat?

So you want an enlargementof your anchor locker? Thedoctor will be with youshortly.

Software management woes

Sonic repair

Spring fore, fall aft.

Springeth forward

Steps, and second steeringstations on smaller boats,nope, don't like them

Stick your hand in the job jar,and pull out a couple boatimprovement projects.

Stiffening up a small GarminGPS

Stochastic analysis ofnavigation systems singlepoint failures, you just can'teasily always find out what isbroken.

Straightening up an Elite Craft

String theory

Suicide terrorist sturgeonsthreatening Florida.

TV surgery

Tech support Kudos 2010

Tech support kudos

Technical garbage confusion

Testing the Pearce SimpsonGladding Islander RDF

Thank you notes

That boat ain't right, a primer.

That fish box is strongenough, most of these guysjust use them to keep the beercold anyway.

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The 2010 Boston WhalerOutrage 370, Wow!

The 2011 NMEA conference

The BitterEnd Blog

The Boating School

The Bounty Hearings

The Ehler's Garmin 5212 tripmeter fills up (Click pic for abigger view)

The Fusion 40 catamaran kit

The Installer's inside voice

The Murse, black is the newpink. Tools of the trade.

The NMEA 2012 conference

The S.M.I.T.E. Awards

The SRQ boat show

The Searay 370 Venture. Whatyou don't see is good.

The T-top from hell, and thelittle anchor light that couldn't

The accidental lesson in 72Colregs "Lines ofDemarcation"

The angry wrathful technologygods at work (Click pic for abetter view)

The animated Yarn of theNancy Belle from the BBS

The attorney's boat

The big hurry

The boat is a zinc'er

The boat show underbelly

The boat that George bought

The case of the dueling pilots.

The devil did it.

The dreaded "CyclopsSyndrome"

The excavation, it's all your


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fault

The first Intrepid power boat,Loys Charbonnet, and the"Checkered Demon"

The imposter

The inquisition

The marine installer'sglossary

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The no wire pull zone

The owner buys the perfectboat

The pilot's boat

The politically incorrectchandlery

The resurrection of Can Do III

The three hour tour and theforces of nature

The up skirt danger

The weakest link at the bitterend of the power cord

The world is not flat

The yacht club, rockets, andthe electron police, The questfor the electrically perfectmarina basin.

This is all your fault

This should be easy, it's inplain sight.

Three chart chips, two GPS's,and an autopilot under thetree. What I what fromvendors this Christmas

To tape or not to tape, that isthe question. A goo vs tapeanalysis.

Too much tech, but notenough lifetime.

Tools, "In Situ", andMacGyver

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Transducer meditations

Trivia question of the month#1

Trumpy Time In SRQ

UFO's and J boats at the sametime.

Water under troubled bridges

Watson buys a boat

Waveblade, the barnacle eater

Wedgie? Really? I'll give you awedgie all right

Weighty Issue

Welcome to Extendo Inc.

West Marine grand openingfun in Sarasota

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What the installer wants forthe new year.

What the..... inverterinstallation made easy

What's that job?

What's wrong with thispicture?

When hurricanes collide, theApocalypse

Where do old boats go ?

Where was the wordprofessional in this inverterinstall?

Why didn't I think of that?Outboard lower unitsalvation.

Why does my new boat haveobsolete equipmnt?

Xcelerator 36 at FLIBS

Yacht certified? Whats that


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You can't always get what youwant, and yes we have noautopilots today.

You dirty rat you, you're goingto meet old sparky.

You piece of blagnab jetsam.

Zen and the art of navigationintegration. It could have beenbetter!

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