Categoria: Accessories
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New in 2018: the boat is in your hands with Volvo Penta Easy Connect
Always connected. With Volvo Penta Easy Connect you can link your boat to smartohpnes and tablets, and have on your screen the info about engines, on-board systems and route. Nowadays technology, and in particular the chance of being connected always and everywhere, has become a must also in pleasure boating. Last product in order of…
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Navico grows with the acquisition of Yacht Defined and an investment in HOC Yachts
Yacht Defined is a technology platform, while HOC Yachts is a start-up in boat design: both come from Sweden. Navico wants to get bigger and ever more advanced in technology related to boating. Navico is already one of the world’s largest manufacturers of marine electronics, owning brands such as Lowrance, Simrad and B&G. But they…
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Garmin acquires Navionics, and mapping gets even more evolved
Now if you buy a Garmin chartplotter you enter a new world of cartography. The large Italian cartography company Navionics has been acquired by the equally large American company Garmin, leader in the production and diffusion of electronic and satellite instruments. Navionics can count on the most complete nautical mapping database, with a total coverage…
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2018 for Garmin Marine will be based on mobile connection and evolved devices
2017 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show and a specific event in Milan: two simultaneous stages for the brand new products by Garmin Marine. Not only EchoMap chatrplotters and Striker Plus fishfinders, but also an evolved app which turns the smartphone into a chartplotter and viceversa. Again this year, with the third edition of their “parallel” initiative,…
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The new laminar top from Opac it’s the first in aluminum with translational motion
The first advantage of the Opac laminar top is that, compared to a fabric one, the aluminum slat top ensures longer durability and thus longer resistance to water and atmospheric events. The top can be made in different sizes, depending on the specific needs of the boat designers and is therefore suitable for any boat…
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Simrad and B&G instruments now are standard on all new Bavaria boats
Navico, owner of Simrad, B&G and Lowrance brands, has signed a partnership with the German boatyard Bavaria so to feature all the new units with Simrad devices (on motor boats) and B&G (for sail boats). The definition is “standard fit”, something like OEM (original equipment manufacturer). So, if you buy the new Bavaria R55, you…
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Ship Control Beneteau plays the on board assistant
With Ship Control Beneteau puts several devices of the boat under a fun and user friendly interface. From the dashboard but also from a tablet. We tried it on the Beneteau GT50 (soon you’ll read our sea trial of the boat) and it was a real surprise: we had full control of all the on-board…
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The new Simrad NSS evo3 is more powerful and easier to use
The new multi-purpose display Simrad NSS evo3 opens new sceneries for electronic support to anglers, and for an ever-more connected boat. Anglers, but not only. Counting on increasingly evolved instruments to have a continuous support to navigation is a need felt by everyone, by fishermen but also by leisure boaters, who think that having a…
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With Dual Band the Yacht Controller remote controls are ever more evolved
The Dual Band Yacht Controller offer is based on three models of wireless remote controls: Dual Band, Dual Band Plus and En-Joy, beside the JCS Plus fixed joystick. But other innovations are just around the corner… When you think of a wireless remote control to steer the boat you immediately think of Yacht Controller. An…
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Raymarine RealVision 3D & CHIRP SideVision: a video is worth a thousand words
Jim McGowan from Raymarine shows how the American device can locate structure and fish: the images on the screen are the best way to understand what it’s for. We all remember those dark and blurry images taken by sea bottom explorers. Well, forget them for good: electronics can play on your screen a near-to-perfection reproduction…