I’ve not posted for a while, mainly because not an awful lot worth mentioning has happened in that while, but I’ve conjured up a little sub project now the bulk of the work on the boat is complete and had to shout about it.

I’ve decided to build up a boat PC to run all the onboard navigation. I realise this is perhaps a bit of overkill for a 21ft Corribee but that’s the nature of the Nathan I’m afraid.  I design software for a living, computers are just what I’ve grown up with, so building a computer to run the entire boat seems like a cracking idea to me. Between the facts that I’m not too bad with a soldering iron and can also write software in a whole host of different languages, there’s a huge possibility to what I could do, but for now I’m keeping it simple. It will be a small laptop, probably an Asus EEE PC since they are tiny and consume little power. The laptop will be plugged into the handheld GPS I already have and run the chart plotting software.

So there we have it. This is going to be the most hightech and well equipped cruising Corribee ever built