Lastly, Peter also has the option to send waypoints from his PC to his autopilot as his system evolves. And of course, the rest of the time, even in non-emergency situations, it’s also a whole lot more convenient to have joined up navigational data and this allows for a more pleasant boating experience. Having access to all your marine safety data in one location can be crucial in the marine environment, where timely, data-led and decisive action can be a life-saver. This allows for flexibility and convenience, this allows Peter to use his laptop elsewhere on the boat without the need to be physically connected via USB to receive his marine electronics equipment safety and navigation data, including AIS, GPS, radar, wind, depth, speed, heading on his marine PC software and other iPad and Android boating and AIS APPs.

A USB connection was set up to OpenCPN and PC Plotter and the WiFi connection is also set up in the chartsoftware within minutes using the default password, provided. You can see the combined data feeding from both SeaTalk 1 bus and NMEA2000 bus to the laptop. Specifically, in Peter’s case, OpenCPN and PC Plotter on his PC and iNavX and Navionics Boating on his iPad. Peter wanted to access this combined marine safety and navigation data on his laptop and ipad. Secondly, Peter need to view his combined marine electronics data from his Raymarine ST 60 equipment and his N2K Vesper Marine (XB6000) AIS, B&G radar and and possitional data from his Garmin 19x HVS GPS antenna. So now the Raymarine ST60 data is visible on his B&G Zeus 9″ Chart plotter. Here you see his SeaTalk bus is connected through the Quark-elec A034 to his N2K backbone (The A034 itself is powered by the N2B backbone, so no additional wiring needed here).

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