Cruising Calendar

June 22, 2019 @ 10:00AM

Cruisers Workshop - June 2019

BMYC Clubhouse:

Our next Cruisers Workshop will be held on Saturday 22nd June at the BMYC Clubhouse  The Workshop is designed to build on the knowledge obtained from the Navionics and Instrumentation workshop presented by Garmin and Eurotek recently and gets into the detail of how to select, install and look after your navigation instruments and systems onboard.  It will presented by Terry Longhurst who is the technical guru onboard RedEye and has recently upgraded all of the Nav systems on the boat  We plan to start at 1030 and the galley will be open at 1000 for tea/coffee and breakfast  The general objectives are : The objectives are ;

• • how instruments and sensors are typically wired (networked) together and why. With examples of good and bad.
  • how to perform simple network fault finding. With examples of 'sniffing the network' and 'stimulating the network'.
  • how to connect the latest generation of instruments to legacy systems and sensors. With examples from Raymarine, Garmin, B&G and NKE (as time permits).
  • how to add a PC to the instrument network. With an example of using OpenCPN.
  • how to add a WIFI access point to the existing instruments.
  • how to configure a WIFI connection for one or more iPads or Android devices. With examples  of both types of device running various free instrument and data logging apps.

July 27, 2019 @ 9:00AM

Solent Cruise

Solent:

BMYC Cruising – we have finalised plans for the BMYC summer cruise from Brighton on Sat 27th July to Fowey and back to Brighton arriving Sunday 11th August