17/09/2021

New life for the electronics of our boat

Greetings sailors,Today we are going to reuse and modernize all the electronics of our boat thanks to our Rapsberry with Openplotter, interconnecting NMEA 0183 and Seatalk devices to be able to access their data from any device (Tablet, Mobile, Computer, Navionics, OpenCPN) and anywhere. And all thanks to connecting it with our Raspberry Pi with OpenPlotter. A world of possibilities to rejuvenate the electronics of […]

03/09/2021

The cheapest AIS emitter on the market, for your boat

Greetings sailors,Today we are going to test the cheapest AIS transponder that I could find and which of course is Chinese. In fact, total Chinese. Officially they call it a locator for fishing nets, specifically “SOCOTRAN Net Locator“, but we will see that it is actually a perfectly functional AIS transponder, to which we will be able to incorporate the identification information of our boat […]

13/08/2021

Interesting inventions and purchases for the ship. Boat Tour Part 2

Greetings sailors, This week we have done a boat tour through some of the inventions and the best purchases that we have inside our boat. And since we do not want you to miss any detail of what we tell you … We are going to share with you, what we consider, some of the best purchases and low-cost inventions that we have inside our […]

30/07/2021

Low cost diving equipment for the maintenance of the boat in the water.

Greetings sailors, In today’s post we are going to see some of the revisions and maintenance tasks of the living work that can be carried out with the boat in the water, submerging ourselves, and that will allow us to save a few euros in crane lifts and descents and at the same time they will allow us to lengthen the times between strandings, reducing […]

16/07/2021

Plugging a leak, the easiest and most effective method

Greetings sailors, we have already talked a lot about not sinking our ship. We have dedicated several posts to the subject and with this one, which is intended to be the final one, we intend to end this saga. Today we are going to see a super simple, cheap, and surprisingly effective system to plug a leak in our boat and prevent it from sinking. […]