So much out there so please add your opinion.
For myself it must be electronic motors follow very closely by battery power tools!
Big props to sat nav too-
What do you love about yachts in this time in history?
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Ok I know thats not the type of answer your looking for.
AIS.. It's soo much better calling a station by name as opposed to "vessel 5mn of my port bow".. You may completely not even hear that latter call, but it's amazing how your ears prick up when a name is spoken.
Even better you can look at their heading, speed, CPA and TCA and say even nothing.
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Ok I know thats not the type of answer your looking for.
That's a great answer!
I guess everything is old is new again but isn't it nice to travel and not pay for fossil fuels?
You have probably heard me on this one before, but here I go again.
Sheet to tiller steering.
I only discovered it 5 years ago so I guess it counts,
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I love my wind Genny, best thing I ever put on the boat,,
Best thing I did was take mine off. Every time I got scared at sea I would shut mine down and the lack of noise was a god send. At low wind speed it was useless. I suspect mine was an old model though.
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I love my wind Genny, best thing I ever put on the boat,,
Best thing I did was take mine off. Every time I got scared at sea I would shut mine down and the lack of noise was a god send. At low wind speed it was useless. I suspect mine was an old model though.
Mine barely makes any noise as it doesn't spin fast. It was a cheapy from china, 3phase with external bridge rectifier control box
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So much out there so please add your opinion.
For myself it must be electronic motors follow very closely by battery power tools!
Big props to sat nav too-
What do you love about yachts in this time in history?
+1 for the battery power tools
Electric propulsion will be good in future, but is still an emerging technology, and expensive.
I'll probably appreciate Sat Nav more when I get beyond my current line-of-sight sailing. However, I often use my not-for-navigation app on my phone to plot a course between banks and shoals.
GPS. To use the over-used phrase, it's a revolution compared to sextants, peering at lighthouses, and hand bearing compasses.
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GPS. To use the over-used phrase, it's a revolution compared to sextants, peering at lighthouses, and hand bearing compasses.
Yep, I'll go with GPS too.
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Mine barely makes any noise as it doesn't spin fast. It was a cheapy from china, 3phase with external bridge rectifier control box
What do you have? I like the idea of a wind genny, but just not what I had. Mine was 3 bladed and they were fairly long. It is amazing how the noise they produced at fully welly played on you mentally.
Sorry for the slight thread drift.....
Select to expand quoteTrek said..Chris 249 said..
GPS. To use the over-used phrase, it's a revolution compared to sextants, peering at lighthouses, and hand bearing compasses.
Yep, I'll go with GPS too.
Yeah GPS - great stuff.
But what I'd really like to see is some sort of jet-ski noise cancelling technology. Jet-ski elimination technology would be even better, but might contravene various maritime regulations etc.
I remember a few years ago the Victorian jet skiers were complaining about being banned from some waterways at the same time the Victorian duck hunters were complaining about the same thing.
The solution was so obvious and so simple - just allow the jet skiers to use the same waterways as the duck hunters and to allow them to have a go at each other. Okay, the funeral cost would have been high for a while and I'm not sure who would have won, but after that the world would have been a better place.
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GPS. To use the over-used phrase, it's a revolution compared to sextants, peering at lighthouses, and hand bearing compasses.
GPS plotters and especially open source plotters.
It's hard to pick only one and I'd certainly agree with the suggestions so far, especially GPS and AIS.
My pick, with more of an eye to the future than the last 20 years, is satellite communications. I think it will become increasingly widespread and cheaper. Detailed weather forecasts anywhere and long range comms without HF radios.
Cheers,
Kinora
