Ben Ellison

BoaterMouth
MFD comparisons #2, mostly currents
Posted on August 12th 2010 - Ben Ellison
I sort of knew that "shootout" was a poor word choice -- implying the certainty of corpses and so forth -- and I'm officially dropping ...

MFD shootout #1, tide predictions
Posted on August 10th 2010 - Ben Ellison
I may regret that title eventually, though I've just been cruising with four premium MFDs for two weeks, often using them seriously for four or ...

MFD shootout #1, tide predictions
Posted on August 10th 2010 - Ben Ellison
I may regret that title eventually, though I've just been cruising with four premium MFDs for two weeks, often using them seriously for four or ...

Antenna watch, Furuno gets the big guys
Posted on August 9th 2010 - Ben Ellison
I'm always checking out antenna farms and when I just reviewed shots from the last couple of weeks, it was hard not to notice how ...

Never buy another guide book? No way!
Posted on August 5th 2010 - Ben Ellison
Jeffrey Siegel caused a minor ruckus when he titled an iphonesailing.net thread about ActiveCaptain "There's no reason to buy another guide book..."  I'm a ...

SiMON2, for iPad & "smaller" yachts
Posted on August 3rd 2010 - Ben Ellison
The press release calls SiMON2 "the first alarm monitoring system for the new Apple iPad," which seems odd given what we've already seen from InteliSea.  ...

Wilson cell booster testing, on Sun Dancer
Posted on July 30th 2010 - Ben Ellison
Panbo reader Pat Harmon is cruising Alaska aboard M/V Sun Dancer and he kindly agreed to write about some gear, seen above, that's helping him ...

Gizmo bridge 2010, a shout out to Garmin ID
Posted on July 29th 2010 - Ben Ellison
While Panbo's logo is still a work in progress, check out the sharp name plate Gizmo is sporting, thanks to Garmin's industrial design department.  Gander ...

Genasun & Victron, power to spare?
Posted on July 27th 2010 - Ben Ellison
That's a pair of Genasun LFP Lithium batteries that weigh a small fraction of what similar sized regular marine batteries would and offer a lot ...

DY AIS200N2K, even better than it looks!
Posted on July 26th 2010 - Ben Ellison
The picture tells a lot: Digital Yacht's new AIS200N2K is the first AIS receiver I know of with NMEA 0183, NMEA 2000, and USB ...