Trip to San Diego, What Worked Well and What Didn't Part 1

Overall the boat and crew did great!  Much better than I could have hoped for.  Fortunately the "What Didn't" is a fairly short list, so I will start with that. 

Manna's Happy Crew; Doug, Julie, Curtis... Notice Annie was not permitted shore leave!

We Made it to San Diego!



San Diego skyline...looking suspiciously like Seattle with the cloud cover

 

 

It’s raining today, so Julie is getting around to writing the blogpost

 

Our trip down the coast was amazing, beautiful, and exciting beyond what we had hoped for or imagined. 

Project - NMEA 2000 Network - Part 2

Why solely choose NMEA 2000 (N2K) for marine data communications and devices?  Some of the reasons are standardization (upgrading single components, not complete systems, over time), redundancy, getting the best solution from the most appropriate vendor, and ease of installation. Of course we are assuming N2K will be around for quite some time  Based on my research it should be supported for 20+ years or more still to come.

Furuno and Maretron play nice together sharing a N2K data backbone connection.

Project - NMEA 2000 Network - Part 1

We have been busy with various boat projects, but replacing the 1993 electronics with the new electronics has been one of the more significant projects.  One of my main goals when shopping the boat show for replacements was to standardize on the NMEA 2000 (N2K) data infrastructure for all devices.  So far it has been pretty successful.

Our NMEA 2000 Network Design

I prefer the "best of breed" methodology for choosing electronics, so having a standardized data communication platform with common connectors across various manufacturers has been essential to the success of our mixed breed device installation.