July 6, 2022

New “Furuno Compatible” GPS160F Positioning Sensor

Furuno are one of the most successful marine electronic manufacturers in the world and their products can be found on thousands of vessels, from the smallest yacht to the largest super-tanker. Renowned for their reliability, there are many older Furuno systems, still giving good service, that were developed before the […]
March 18, 2020

Digital Yacht 2020 Product Guide

Our new 2020 Product Catalogue is now available to download from HERE or click on the image below. It contains useful guides to AIS as well as detailing all our latest products and solution ideas for integrating products. Good Boating The Digital Yacht Team
September 9, 2019

Digital Yacht unveils GPS160 TriNav Positioning Sensor with GPS, Glonass and Galileo compatibility and a unique MOB function

Digital Yacht have unveiled their TriNav GPS160, a new, high performance positioning sensor using GPS, Glonass and the new Galileo satellite system for exceptional positioning accuracies and redundancies. Typical accuracy is better than 1m and data can be set to output at up to 18Hz for smoother plotter track displays.  […]
March 15, 2019

GPS Roll-Over April 2019

It is over 20 years since the first GPS Roll-Over (21/22 August 1999) which, although over shadowed by the more notorious “Millenium Bug”, caused much concern for GPS manufacturers and users, worried that their GPS units would stop working. Although some GPS models did have problems, world armageddon did not […]
August 6, 2018

Boost Weak GPS Signals Below Deck

We do like our offices in Farleigh Court, near Bristol, but with thick walls dating back to 1837, getting a phone signal let alone a GPS signal is problematic. So we were very pleased to find a GPS Signal Repeater that allowed us to get accurate position fixes in our […]
May 15, 2018
Raystar GPS Replacement made easy with this bundle

Raystar GPS Replacement made easy with GPS150 and SeaTalk interface

Our GPS150 (combination GPS & GLONASS) positioning sensor has been popular as a replacement GPS sensor for older Raymarine systems such as the RL, C and E series plotters and multi function displays.  However, it uses NMEA data and it is necessary to locate and connect direct to a NMEA […]
April 15, 2015
Raymarine a, c and e Series Plotters with AIS over NMEA2000

Raymarine a, c and e Series Plotters with AIS over NMEA2000

This week we have been helping one of our dealers; Marine Electronic Installations (MEI) in Portsmouth, to find a solution to an interesting NMEA2000 problem with the latest range of Raymarine a, c and e Series Multi-Function Displays. Most of these MFDs feature an internal GPS, a SeaTalkNG (NMEA2000) interface […]
April 14, 2015
No GPS on Transponder due to loose FME connector

No GPS on Transponder due to loose FME connector

Our AIT2000 and AIT3000 Class B transponders are supplied with a GPS antenna that has a 10m cable terminated in an FME connector (right hand connector in the above image). These connectors are very slim, not much larger than the coax cable and are much easier to route through the […]