January 18, 2009 09:25
I have a fair amount of Raymarine equipment installed on my boat. Multiple helms and just about everything they produce. It's pretty easy to get NMEA data out of their interfaces. I use a laptop and mobile phone for all planning and route creation (creating a route on their devices is user-hostile in my opinion). From there, I connect over Bluetooth to a ShipModul multiplexer that handles SeaTalk as well as the multiplexing needed to interface everything together. It has worked like a charm over 18,000 nm of cruising.