How did this thing sneak up on me? I don't know but with a boat in the water I'm ready to gather info and buy some goodies. I'm very interested in looking into instrumentation packages and interop between vendors. I think I'm going to be going with TackTick up the masts and then routing all of that into a NMEA 2000 network. Not as many...

If you're a MAC (not me) or an iPhone (me) user you should head over and check out MacSailing.Net . It's a good forum about sailing software for the MAC and iPhone including Mr. Tides and iNavX the iPhone version of GPS NavX . Only about 800 users, but nonetheless if your a MAC or iPhone user who sails it seems like the place to be.

Image via Wikipedia This is direct from the Port of Seattle When: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 11 a.m. - 6:30 p.m Where: Fishermen's Terminal The 20th Annual Fishermen's Fall Festival is a free, fun, family-oriented event celebrating the return of the North Pacific Fishing Fleet. There's something for everyone...two stages operating throughout...