Electronics

We’re lucky here at the boatyard as most of us love our sailing and own and sail our own boats.
In the course of our job we also deliver and move customers boats about and so we get chance to experience a wide range of gear, the good the bad and down right dangerous.
This in turn helps us when asked “what do you recommend”
That is until it gets to sailing Electronics.
Its almost a full time job keeping up with the latest and greatest sailing electronics from the main manufacturers.
Reading the blurb they all make it seem so easy but from an installers point of view the opposite is often true.
Running cables sounds easy but in some boats its a nightmare.
Yachts with wheels and binnacles have just enough room to run the original wiring but no way can you run extra’s up there and now we have fancy cables with molded plugs which won’t easily mouse down awkward holes so you end up having to cut and reconnect and some of the plugs themselves are just plain poor.