Collinite - magic stuff for boats
I’ve been through a lot of different waxes and treatments for boats that always seem to take forever to apply, or have some catch. I recently had my boat
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Steve Mitchell
I'm a technology nerd that loves playing piano, playing with new electronics, being on the water, and solving new problems.
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Yearly haul out
I’ve been through a lot of different waxes and treatments for boats that always seem to take forever to apply, or have some catch. I recently had my boat
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ScanStrut Self Leveling Radar Pole
In my last post here, I talked about my new Simrad NSE and the BR24 radar [https://seabits.com/simrad-nse12-br24/]. Some of you asked me how I mounted the BR24
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Simrad NSE12 + BR24
For a while I have been planning a new system on my sailboat for navigation. I started out back in 2007 with a Garmin GPSMAP 5208 [http://static.squarespace.com/
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Taking the ferry to work
The last few days I’ve been “commuting” from our place on Vashon Island into downtown Seattle. Part of it was a trial to see how it was to commute,
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Climbing the mast
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had to climb the mast of my sailboat to get at some things that were broken, and also to install a new system
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Living on a houseboat?
I’ve been thinking off and on for a while about moving from my current 1 bedroom, 900sf apartment into something a little more unique, and a little larger. Friday,
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Sailing ... slightly cold but still nice
In the last two weeks I’ve been out on the water twice, once only for a short sail (about 2 hours) and today for about 4. Last week it
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ACR Nauticast Class B transponder
Update Early 2015: I have since moved to a new boat, and have a Vesper XB-8000 AIS unit. The ACR Nauticast unit failed in 2012, and was replaced with another
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Favorite G1/Android stuff
I’ve had the G1 for a while now, and have found a few things that are must-haves both in hardware and software. First, the Innocell [https://www.seidioonline.com/
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Switched to T-Mobile G1
A few days ago I got a call from AT&T saying that I was likely going to have an increase on my cell phone bill due to the
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Strange iPhone icon - SOLVED
SOLVED Updated 10/13/2008 I finally found out what the icon is – it’s for TTY access. Apparently I either turned it on by accident, or it came on
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