B&G Stuff

Beatiful day today. Should have been sailing.

Went to the boat anyway to do some small stuff here and there. Landed the liferaft as it is bit of an overkill in these waters, also the fractional S2 Spinnaker got a ticket to the storage..

Installed a bracket for the B&G V50 VHF wireless handset, H50. The bracket outside does not have inductive charging, that will be still done by the chart table. Battery life is 8+ hours so it is not a problem. Volume from the handset is surprisingly good.

B&G came out with an update for the Zeus2's. Installed it today. Main update/feature is the race panel and possibility to control H5000 CPU setting and Race Timer from the Zeus2.

The race panel and it's "zero burn" line seem like a good one for those starts where Expedition is not used. Below a video from "Start Line" screen and the virtual zero burn line moving towards the pinged line according to polar speed.

Tomorrow there is a boat show here in Helsinki, Uiva 2015, I think I go and take alook. They have the new Grand Soleil 39 in the water. Interesting to see how things have changed in 10 years:)

B&G H5000 Hercules install complete

New electronics are installed:) Gadgets, more gadgets!

Graphic Displays by the companion way. These are nice, large displays that can show at least two lines of information. One nice page is the wind plot, that will probably be used quite a lot. It also has start timer function. System onboard Seanna is with H5000 Hercules CPU so, among other things, it will calculate "time to burn"

Nav. Desk got a 7" Zeus2, mainly to be used as a display for NMEA data, etc. Zeus2 chart can be replicated to a tablet when precision navigation is not needed. PC will run the main navigation software.

One feature of the Zeus2 is the ability to control the whole H5000 system, mast display control, manipulate/adjust polars (below), and so on. It might be easier to do all this stuff from the PC but it is nice to have the option to make adjustments even without the computer running.

Other option is to adjust everything from the PC or tablet via GoFree wireless. Below a sample shot from browser based set-up page.

Seanna will be up on the hard for few days end of this month, get the bottom clean and sleek for the season and color of the decorative lines will be changed to "Charcoal metallic".Can't wait to get to the boat and set sail for "Eivissa"

New electronics: B&G H5000 Hercules

Installation in progress...

Nav. Station got Zeus2 MFD that can be used as a chartplotter when not running the PC w/Expedition or just simply as a display for NMEA 2000 Data. System will have GoFree wireless which replicates the MFD's screen to a Lenovo tablet over wifi.

Above companionway will be two Graphic displays for controlling mast displays and display of few lines of data each.These old holes from the Raymarine ST290's will need to be filled and new holes cut... Below a picture of the new graphic display.

Four 20/20 HV Displays at the mast... Exact location is yet to be determined..

Then a bunch of sensors of course..

Tablet for B&G GoFree wifi and this blog

Just bought a Lenovo tablet for replicating NMEA Data and other stuff such as writing this blog... My first Android device. I am a bit against Android and Apple stuff but unfortunately windows can not offer all the apps & functions of android/IOS.