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This is exactly the set-up on Stepping Out. The gas bottle sits in a separately boxed compartment in the cockpit locker, and drains to the rear of the cockpit (open/scoop transom, so no issue there). A simple flat lid sits in a short rebate in the top of the gas box, fingerhole to pull it up. Closing the locker clamps the gas box lid closed as well. Simple, effective, compliant.

Just newly insured our 1974 Spencer through Mariner Insurance. Wasn't cheap - around 6% of insured value with $500 excess... 3rd party only was not an option (they wouldn't do it) and the excess increase to $1000 only made a few dollars difference in the premium.

Apart from Coastguard, who provides a VHF radio course that meets legal requirements for registering a call sign?

Hi IT - got out and took a look today. The connector on the transducer cable at the back of the gauge is a normal RCA - like on your stereo gear. Cable is one-piece all the way to the transducer. The transducer is through-hull, ahead of the keel. Plastic construction, but I haven't taken it out - its a BIG hole for water to pour through! Hull is glass over ply. The unit is actually a Navman D41, which I think predates the 2100. I've picked up a little hand-held o-scope off Tard-Me this evening, so i'll build a break-out connector and see what signals are going and coming from t

Then the restriction will also be good for training people to ask clear, concise, well contructed questions, and for others to give clear, complete considered responses. Kinda like a bag limit, but different.

Thanks MCP, thats what I was lookng for. Yes to the scope and the frequency generator so I'll give it a shot Cheers

I'm looking for a test procedure for a Navman 2100 depth gauge. The unit is powering up ok but displaying a "double dash" instead of a depth at the moment. The Navman troubleshooting guide helpfully suggests this means there is a problem, probably with the transducer circuit. No sh*t Sherlock... They do not describe how to test it. Any marine electronics techs out there able to help out?

Thanks all. I'm very aware that system redundancy is an important consideration - more baskets for the eggs. We have a small handheld marine GPS, compass, paper charts etc (no sextant!). I'm looking for a system that gives more or quicker or richer info with less risk of calculation errors. I've been looking at Openplotter on a Pi device as an option - it looks interesting with lots of implimentation options you can grow into. To Island Time and Steve's point, many aircraft (and sea-craft) have been lost because pilots thought they knew better than the computer guidance or contr

Local stuff thanks. Plan is to slowly expand from Hauraki Gulf up to BOI then around NZ as experience and ability allows. 5-year plan.

As a new yacht owner with way too many bits of IT hardware hanging around I'm keen to repurpose stuff if it effective. Does anyone have informed comment or advice from recent experience on using an android tablet as a chart plotter, with or without an external aerial?