George Hackett

I use a 9V battery to run my T121. I usually go for about six months till I need to replace.

When I hear a question like that! I walk away.

I used heat shrink tubing that you can buy by the roll. Put three layers on.

Why not look at the Ubi Maior single line drive units that are now be supplied to the new J-Boats?

You can hook into the NMEA Transmitter which is 0183, not N2K, but not to the Hull Transmitter. Does the new system include masthead unit and hull units? Because you can keep the the TackTick stuff and the GateWay will bring that info to the new stuff. And it can take all the info from all hardware and send it wirelessly to Raymarine/TackTick readout.

Here the setup as I understand it. The cable on the left can go to N2K backbone or you B&G Chartploter.

RIP in peace. While I never met Mr. Bishop, I have always read and known of him. Now, I am not sure? But did he not own the Doubroth42 called Mokowahi or something along that line? I remember the boat as one of the many Horizon Sails projects and I actually drover her for a photo shoot for a Horizon Sails advert.

I was having the same problem of rust or what I thought was rust until a friend suggested I check to make sure I do not have an electrical short? Turned out there was a short. Something to look at?

And my understanding is IRC treats upwind sails more harshly than kites. Jibs in particular?

Yes, IRC will “Adjust”, not penalize your rating.

Well,,,,stay with Raymarine. At least the new stuff will talk to the autopilot stuff. And thier MFD with Lighthouse II have very usable racing programs for the type of racing you might do. And if you want to lessen the amount of wires? Get the GateWay and run Raymarine’s Wireless Readouts?!

So as I was suggesting. With the GateWay, you can keep things like the Wireless masthead unit, the Hull Transmitter and it associated transducers, and then feed all that information to what ever MFD brand you like and the MFD feeds information to the GateWay which will feed information wirelessly to the Raymarine Wireless 20/20 types readouts on the mast that can be single, double, or triple stacked.

If you connect the new MicroTalk gateway of Raymarine to a NMEA2k backbone then you will get all the data from the N2K bus that uses standard N2K PGNs, including heading, speed, depth, log, position, COG, SOG, BTW, DTW, XTE, apparent wind, etc. You would need Maxi repeater(s), MicroTalk and a Remote Display and end up with a rather nice setup with a lot less wire.

So who supplied the engine?