"purple_stars" wrote in
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what kind of weather instruments do you use and how do you use them ?


B&G Network Wind:
http://www.pyacht.net/cgi-local/Soft...in/pagegen.pl?
U+scstore+jwlw1278ff16a116+pr+bgNETWSYS.html
sorry for the wordwrap. After a while you forget what it costs...(c;
Gives us true wind, apparent wind for sailing, speed and direction and
encodes it to all the other NMEA instruments listening on the network.

http://ftv.3amsystems.com/
WEFAX charts, NAVTEX messages, WWV broadcast warnings using software-based
decoders that run on the laptop's sound card plugged into the headphone
jack on the Icom M802 HF-SSB radio. Nice to have weather charts from NOAA
offshore...even this slow.

A recording barometer. Every Amel yacht comes with the most beautiful
chart-recording barometer. It's not really necessary with all the
electronics, but it's very local warning to look up there and see that line
start dropping! Runs on a little battery for a year.

Using the Wind instrument is just turning it on, mostly. It keeps you from
having to crane your neck in the day and continues to give you relative
wind info into the darkness when you can't see the vane.

The WEFAX is the same chart you get on the net. Not sure how to tell you
"how do you use it"....??