I'm especially pleased to have discovered the Weld Mount system of glue-on cable and hose mounts because much of Gizmo is balsa cored and thus I'm darn hesitant about penetrating a fiberglass skin with screws. But the Weld Mount adhesive is so easy to use, and the results so strong, that these mounts might be appropriate to many projects...
Yes, that's Nobeltec Time Zero Trident running on Gizmo's Mac Mini with NMEA 2000 data coming in via Actisense NGT-1 -- as seen in an earlier entry on ChartTable21 -- but, wow, the screen shot was taken on my iPad. And I had complete control of Trident from the pad without any noticeable delay in commands or zoom/pan screen refreshes, even with the intense graphic data seen in those nicely blended MapMedia hi res photo maps. If you're interested in extending an onboard PC navigation system over WiFi to an Apple (or Android) pad you may recall that in October the possibilities weren't thrilling, but that was before Splashtop Remote Desktop came along...
While Camden is being visited by lots of large yachts again this summer, as of yesterday afternoon this is the antenna mast that dominates all. And, no, it wasn't dropped by aliens onto the deck of a schooner. Those Norway pine spars with served rigging are part of the rather stunning package. And while it would be great if readers attempt to analyze what all those antennas are about -- and whether it's as sensible as it looks to mount some of them upside down? -- I'm going to concentrate on the vessel and her equally yar charge...
