Navigation and Communications

Sailing Yacht SEA BUNNY

Navigation/communications

Radios, satellite equipment, navigation and instrumentation

Sea Bunny carries SSB and VHF radios, Inmarsat C and full navigational instrumentation.


Sailing instrumentation

B & G Hydra wind speed, wind direction, log and depth (refurbished and updated 2001, software updated 2010)

Global positioning

Raymarine C120W chart plotter mounted in cockpit interfaced to B&G sailing instrumentation.
We have discovered a problem with the C120W in that the ground log and associated trip functions under-read.  In our installation the magnitude of the error is around 30%. Raymarine accept that this is a generic problem with the C-widescreen chartplotters but, at present, have no immediate plans to modify the software to fix it. 

Fluxgate World fast heading sensor

Furuno GP32 GPS (2003) as spare

Magellan 320 handheld GPS (2001)

Yeoman plotter linked to C120W (one-way)

Radar

Raymarine 18" digital radome linked to C120W

Radios

Icom IC-MC501 EURO (2001) marine band VHF transceiver with cockpit speaker and Icom DS-100 DSC controller linked to GPS

Uniden waterproof hand held VHF transceiver (2010)

Icom IC-M710 marine SSB MF/HF transceiver(2001) with cockpit speaker

Satellite communications

Thrane & Thrane TT-3022D Inmarsat-C transceiver (2001) with integral GPS

Navtex

Furuno (2001)

Not much use in S Pacific - no broadcasts! Back on line since Singapore.

Autopilot

Autohelm 300 with 6000+ control head driving to steering quadrant independently of steering cables (drive unit 2001).  Can be controlled from C120W chartplotter.

Autohelm 100 tiller pilot as spare (drives via Aries vane gear)

Computers and television

2 laptop computers, linked by wireless and/or cabled network

Media centre, linked into network

HD digital TV, also used as computer monitor

Internet access when available in port through WiFi or 3G/GPRS mobile networks

AIS

Weatherdock Easy TRS-2 IS active AIS linked to C120W.  Silent mode switch to inhibit transmit mode

 

 

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Last Updated from Rebak, Langkawi on 4 November 2011

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