May 8, 2018

NMEA 2000 Cabling Starter Kit – Easy, professional interfacing on board

NMEA 2000 has now become the de-facto standard throughout the marine electronics industry for interconnection of devices. It uses a simple backbone (sometimes called “trunk”) structure with requires terminators at the ends of the cabling and then each device can be spurred off using a drop cable.  The bus also requires power.  Waterproof […]
April 27, 2018

Digital Update May 2018 Now Available

Our new edition of Digital Update, keeping you abreat of the latest developments in boating electronics, is available to download by clicking on the image below In this edition we look a some of our new product introductions including: Engine monitoring for older engines using iKommunicate and the Actisense EMU1 […]
April 18, 2018

Dealer & Partner Update April 2018

Here’s a quick video update on two new product introductions: 4G Connect – Easy, fast acces to 4G internet afloat with up to 20NM range capability and 70MBs downloads NMEA 2000 Starter Kit – The one box, expandable solution for NMEA 2000 networking with terminators, drop cable, power cable and 6 way T […]
March 22, 2018

AIS SARTS – A Quick Refresh

An AIS SART (Search And Rescue Transmitter) is a homing beacon designed for use in an emergency. When activated an AIS SART transmits its GPS position using AIS in a special SART message. This message is recognised by the AIS display systems on other vessels (and potentially on shore) as […]
March 14, 2018

Tablet Navigation now more affordable with price reductions on Digital Yacht NMEA to WiFi servers

  Following the introduction of our new iAIS app with popular Navionics charting available as an option,  we’re pleased to announce two special offers on our NMEA to WiFi servers effective until 31st May 2018.  These devices connect to a boat’s NMEA network and send data wirelessly to smart phones, iPads […]
March 13, 2018

iKommunicate + EMU-1 the Perfect Combination

With many new marine engines now having integrated Engine Management Units outputting NMEA2000 or J1939 data, it is easy to forget that the vast majority of inboard marine engines have no digital engine monitoring, just the traditional analogue engine gauges. With your boat’s engine probably being the most expensive and […]
March 10, 2018
OpenCPN and iKommunicate on Autopilot

OpenCPN and iKommunicate on Autopilot

Yesterday we were trying to help Matt at Harbour Marine Services get his customer’s new iKommunicate installation to drive a Furuno autopilot from OpenCPN running on a PC. Matt had the hardware all installed perfectly, but there appeared to be no data coming out of OpenCPN on their NMEA Debug […]
March 9, 2018

SMG “Meet the Manufacturers” 2018

Yesterday we were pleased to take part in an exciting event organised by SMG Europe the UK Marine Electronics Distributor, who had invited many of the leading manufacturers to take part in an exhibition and technical product conference at the very impressive Ordnance Survey office in Southampton. Digital Yacht were exhibiting […]