Category: Accessories

The new Simrad AP48 Autopilot Controller is a pro-level device with full-color display, Control and selection knob and dedicated dodge buttons. The Simrad AP48 Autopilot Controller is a premium control unit for Simrad Continuum autopilot systems, featuring a 4.1" optically bonded full.color display with a modern glass-helm style. It can…

The new Simrad AP48 Autopilot Controller is a pro-level device with full-color display, Control and selection knob and dedicated dodge buttons. The Simrad AP48 Autopilot Controller is a premium control…

Nowadays we can't imagine to practice any sport without filming it. So, here's one of the best products on the market: Garmin Virb 360. You can record every moment of your boat trip, the discovery by chance of a wonderful spot, the ultimate trick with a water toy: all of…

Nowadays we can't imagine to practice any sport without filming it. So, here's one of the best products on the market: Garmin Virb 360. You can record every moment of…

A poll by Navico consulted 791 boaters across Europe. Over 50% of them is using a tiny part of their boat electronics' potential. Thus, Lowrance adopted new strategies in order to simplify and ease the use of on-board instruments. The main reason appears to be a lack of awareness of…

A poll by Navico consulted 791 boaters across Europe. Over 50% of them is using a tiny part of their boat electronics' potential. Thus, Lowrance adopted new strategies in order…

A smartwatch with GPS featuring several functions dedicated to fishing and navigation, sailing and motor cruising: this, and much more, is Garmin quatix 5. Goodbye, dear old watch. The new Garmin pushes to retirement not only dozens of wrist watches, but also many devices that seemed irreplaceable. Because quatix 5…

A smartwatch with GPS featuring several functions dedicated to fishing and navigation, sailing and motor cruising: this, and much more, is Garmin quatix 5. Goodbye, dear old watch. The new…

Power failure won't be a problem with the new, smart Victron Energy MultiPlus by Uflex. They are compatible with different accumulators. A range of powerful pure-sinusoidal-wave inverters, combined with battery chargers which sport a sophisticated technology in order to adapt to various types of accumulators, including lithium-ion batteries. This is…

Power failure won't be a problem with the new, smart Victron Energy MultiPlus by Uflex. They are compatible with different accumulators. A range of powerful pure-sinusoidal-wave inverters, combined with battery…

Besenzoni celebrates half a century of activity recalling their history, the main personalities, and the many innovations they introduced in boating accessories. The term outsourcing makes us shiver, for the many abuses that production relocation has made in recent years, often with heavy quality repercussions. Instead, this story of "outsourcing"…

Besenzoni celebrates half a century of activity recalling their history, the main personalities, and the many innovations they introduced in boating accessories. The term outsourcing makes us shiver, for the…

Controlling your surface propeller transmissions is now possible to everybody: Topsystem Easy Set has made it fully automatic. There is no doubt about the higher efficiency of surface drives, especially when it comes to high performance. But, manufacturers and owners have often been skeptical about them because they have issues…

Controlling your surface propeller transmissions is now possible to everybody: Topsystem Easy Set has made it fully automatic. There is no doubt about the higher efficiency of surface drives, especially…

Another step forward for the American company: Raymarine Quantum 2 radar uses Coast Guard's technology to improve safety during navigation. More integration for Axiom screens. As long as technology improves, it becomes easier to make it available to ever more people. So, some features move down from professional use to…

Another step forward for the American company: Raymarine Quantum 2 radar uses Coast Guard's technology to improve safety during navigation. More integration for Axiom screens. As long as technology improves,…

The multi-purpose screens from the American manufacturer gets larger with Mercury VesselView 403: it's the small of the range but sports all the features of the larger ones. Nowadays we are used to checking everything with a glance, to operate everything with a tap on a screen. And as normally…

The multi-purpose screens from the American manufacturer gets larger with Mercury VesselView 403: it's the small of the range but sports all the features of the larger ones. Nowadays we…

Always connected. With Volvo Penta Easy Connect you can link your boat to smartohpnes and tablets, and have on your screen the info about engines, on-board systems and route. Nowadays technology, and in particular the chance of being connected always and everywhere, has become a must also in pleasure boating.…

Always connected. With Volvo Penta Easy Connect you can link your boat to smartohpnes and tablets, and have on your screen the info about engines, on-board systems and route. Nowadays…

Yacht Defined is a technology platform, while HOC Yachts is a start-up in boat design: both come from Sweden. Navico wants to get bigger and ever more advanced in technology related to boating. Navico is already one of the world’s largest manufacturers of marine electronics, owning brands such as Lowrance,…

Yacht Defined is a technology platform, while HOC Yachts is a start-up in boat design: both come from Sweden. Navico wants to get bigger and ever more advanced in technology…

Now if you buy a Garmin chartplotter you enter a new world of cartography. The large Italian cartography company Navionics has been acquired by the equally large American company Garmin, leader in the production and diffusion of electronic and satellite instruments. Navionics can count on the most complete nautical mapping…

Now if you buy a Garmin chartplotter you enter a new world of cartography. The large Italian cartography company Navionics has been acquired by the equally large American company Garmin,…

2017 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show and a specific event in Milan: two simultaneous stages for the brand new products by Garmin Marine. Not only EchoMap chatrplotters and Striker Plus fishfinders, but also an evolved app which turns the smartphone into a chartplotter and viceversa. Again this year, with the third…

2017 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show and a specific event in Milan: two simultaneous stages for the brand new products by Garmin Marine. Not only EchoMap chatrplotters and Striker Plus fishfinders,…

The first advantage of the Opac laminar top is that, compared to a fabric one, the aluminum slat top ensures longer durability and thus longer resistance to water and atmospheric events. The top can be made in different sizes, depending on the specific needs of the boat designers and is…

The first advantage of the Opac laminar top is that, compared to a fabric one, the aluminum slat top ensures longer durability and thus longer resistance to water and atmospheric…

Navico, owner of Simrad, B&G and Lowrance brands, has signed a partnership with the German boatyard Bavaria so to feature all the new units with Simrad devices (on motor boats) and B&G (for sail boats). The definition is “standard fit”, something like OEM (original equipment manufacturer). So, if you buy…

Navico, owner of Simrad, B&G and Lowrance brands, has signed a partnership with the German boatyard Bavaria so to feature all the new units with Simrad devices (on motor boats)…

With Ship Control Beneteau puts several devices of the boat under a fun and user friendly interface. From the dashboard but also from a tablet. We tried it on the Beneteau GT50 (soon you'll read our sea trial of the boat) and it was a real surprise: we had full…

With Ship Control Beneteau puts several devices of the boat under a fun and user friendly interface. From the dashboard but also from a tablet. We tried it on the…

The new multi-purpose display Simrad NSS evo3 opens new sceneries for electronic support to anglers, and for an ever-more connected boat. Anglers, but not only. Counting on increasingly evolved instruments to have a continuous support to navigation is a need felt by everyone, by fishermen but also by leisure boaters,…

The new multi-purpose display Simrad NSS evo3 opens new sceneries for electronic support to anglers, and for an ever-more connected boat. Anglers, but not only. Counting on increasingly evolved instruments…

The Dual Band Yacht Controller offer is based on three models of wireless remote controls: Dual Band, Dual Band Plus and En-Joy, beside the JCS Plus fixed joystick. But other innovations are just around the corner… When you think of a wireless remote control to steer the boat you immediately…

The Dual Band Yacht Controller offer is based on three models of wireless remote controls: Dual Band, Dual Band Plus and En-Joy, beside the JCS Plus fixed joystick. But other…

Jim McGowan from Raymarine shows how the American device can locate structure and fish: the images on the screen are the best way to understand what it's for. We all remember those dark and blurry images taken by sea bottom explorers. Well, forget them for good: electronics can play on…

Jim McGowan from Raymarine shows how the American device can locate structure and fish: the images on the screen are the best way to understand what it's for. We all…

Lowrance debuts a new technology for fishfinding with Chirp system, so we had to test it. It's the brand new StructureScan 3D echo sounder image collection, capable of drawing a 3D map of the sea bottom. I tested it in Varazze, Italy on a 6.60 meter aluminum sportsfisher, built by…

Lowrance debuts a new technology for fishfinding with Chirp system, so we had to test it. It's the brand new StructureScan 3D echo sounder image collection, capable of drawing a…