Give your PC a Raymarine User Interface

I’ve long been a fan of the usability and pleasing industrial design of Raymarine products. Now it’s being brought to the PC via their navigation software and a new USB controller that emulates the buttons and knobs on their chartplotters and radars. Sitting on your nav station, or snapped into a cradle, it provides a way to control the navigation software without getting wet, salty fingers near your keyboard. With this, a rubberized keyboard, and a cheap 15 inch LCD at the nav station (less than $250 these days), you could keep your laptop running in a cubby out of harm’s way. Oh, heck, you can even pick up one of their ultrabright, waterproof monitors to mount at the helm while you’re at it, if you don’t mind shelling out five boat units for the privilege (1 BU = $1k).