Another amazing technical video James! Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to share all this valuable information in detail. It's great to see you building a robust and reliable system from years of experience and refining it into a simple and efficient model. Have you been able to successfully integrate all of these components onto a single tablet device through the multiplex and wifi networking? It seems to me the ideal configuration would potentially be to have all of these functions including the digital switching controls all seamlessly accessed from any tablet that you have installed throughout the vessel such as at the helm station, main cabin, nav desk, with spares pre-programed and configured incase of failure for immediate emergency redundancy. In addition to the navigation electronics you could theoretically integrate other “smart home” features and automations such as climate control, lighting, music, pumps, security cameras and power management all from a single (or multuple) relatively inexpensive handheld devices that are also battery powered and waterproof. I also wonder if you see Apple devices as being a capable and reliable solution to this or if you still consider Linux as the preferable platform for its customization and open source functionality. Much appreciated and keep up the great work!! Fair winds!

You definitely have the geekiest sailing channel available! Excellent information, very well articulated. Thank you for that, keeping your videos saved for reference in the future. I am looking forward to the next ones!!!

wow, thanks James. Lots to consume and research. Love the set up and your technical videos. thanks for sharing. enjoy the sailing

Fantastic info. Approximate costs and cost comparisons would be even better please 🙏 Also basic Open CPN and other equipment Setup would be priceless. Thanks again, Michael

James, amazing that a Doctor knows so much about IT Systems! I too saw the O Kelly video where you said something like "there's not a Chart Plotter anywhere on this vessel"... bold statement! I also recall one of your older videos (in Columbia?) when you were on your Neel and had your 2nd (3rd?) $$$ B&G Display go down and you said something about hacking the system to ditch B&G, but I did not really know where you were headed. Good stuff. Thanks.

Genuinely what I wanted to know. Saw some of your mentioning of your electronic setup on the O Kelly's video walkthrough and so glad you did a deep dive. Thank you!

You know there's applications to deal with those voltage drops on NMEA networks? Maetron and Actisense I think both make them because yeah you have to plan for how much power everything is taking no matter what you do or what method of delivery. That's just the nature of Direct Current power. Eventually you can hose your electronics through undervoltage if you don't pay attention to it. The NKE may be better for sheilding and it ends there, again, Maetron and other mfr make shielded NMEA 2000 cables nobody is required to buy the cheapest unshieded cables they can find. Unless it's a AC power source if you're having voltage drops from the length of runs you'll have repeated problems until you solve that voltage drop issue.

Excellent stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Yep, really liked that. Lots of good information. I hope you follow up on durability, and compatibility issues as you use it. But it would be nice to assemble systems focused on user preference and satisfaction instead of corporate profit and one size fits all products. You did forget to touch on your unhappiness with Navionics. Maybe hit that on you next vid. Cheers!

Hey James, whow, this is over the top and i need to watch it a couple of times to digest it all! Do you have an item/device list and a wiring diagram? For our tour, I will need to do some outfitting of our yacht. In May I will check, how I can install upgrades,.. Cheers and thanks a lot mate!

Excellent information. Thank you for making these videos!

To say that if you were looking at a yacht over 28ft you’d not use instrumentation that uses NMEA to interface is a little over the top. I’ve spent my life sailing and have run some of the worlds most well known super yachts, which are over 60m (200ft) and they all use NMEA 2000 to interface with each other and it works perfectly. The cables are also shielded as was NMEA 0183 in the early 90’s. Love your boat but why make her so complex and why doesn’t she run off solar alone? This would remove a huge amount of complexity and weight from the vessel, which should be every sailors focus as a simple boat is a reliable boat and a reliable boat costs less to run and uses less of your own time and energy which makes sailing far more stress free and enjoyable.

Beautiful boat! Most PCs are actually DC powered - your desktop contains a transformer to power the motherboard with DC. Really interesting to hear about the NKE instruments and the Kubota generators. It hadn't occurred to me that NMEA would give problems given how ubiquitous it is. Would be very interested in how you have RF switches with no batteries, that seems impossilbe! I remember from previously seeing your autodump system for the sheets - very clever and simple system. Similarly I've had a look at open CPN before but think I need to persist with it a bit more, impressive features! It did occur to me that possibly your B&G failures may have been related either to EMP from lightning or possibly if it was a european unit in a US boat even if the voltage was transformed if it's running at 60Hz rather than 50 and so more power going through the system (or similarly the reverse) which overtimes can go worse.

Thank you for your always interesting videos! Quick question: would you feel confident enough to cross the Atlantic single handed on this ORC57? Thx!

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Great info. Far from all the commercial info we get on the web....

What? Did you say Navico has ARPA radar? Since when? I'm pretty sure it's just MARPA, so it does not acquire, analyse & track automatically, unlike Furuno which is true ARPA radar. Big difference. It's a shame the OCPN radar plugin does not support ARPA radar, that would really be good. For short handed bluewater cruisers, ARPA is a significant safety advantage compared to MARPA. Re N2K on larger boats & voltage drop, you just add another DC power input connector where ever you need to. It's not really an issue. Do you see a problem with that?

phew i need 3 h to process this video and the amount of information is YYYYuge, the sound is not good due to mike and/or surroundings