Seattle’s on the map! No offense to all those wonderful east-coast boat shows, but SOME east-coast manufacturers seem to think the only boat show worth hyping is one in Florida.
I beg to differ. Seattle has a lot to offer a manufacturer trying to make an impression on influential recreational boaters. Seattle has long been home [...]

[It's another MadMariner feature from a few weeks back.
I don’t claim to be any sort of workshop prodigy, but I love being able to work up solutions on my own, and each project gives me a little more confidence for the next one. Well, each successful project, anyway! —Tim]

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We’ve mentioned Steve Roberts before. I’m fond of calling him “the original over-gadgeted technomad”, and he doesn’t seem to mind.
He’s a great source for outside-the-box thinking when it comes to solving technical problems. Longtime readers may remember his comments about a home-brewed alternative to expensive vessel tracking and monitoring systems, for instance.
Sometimes, Steve gets [...]

[This was the Navagear spotlight over at MadMariner a couple weeks back. Enjoy! —Tim]

What the heck is “real-time asset management”? Isn’t that something my stock broker does? Oh wait, I fired my stock broker. No, this is something different.
Think of it as LoJack for your boat. Imagine a device that combines GPS technology with [...]

[Steve Roberts added a comment on my recent press release posting about the Nav-Tracker service from Paradox and EMS Satamatics. With Steve's permission, Navagear will publish his comments in full here, as a stand-alone blog post.
See, if anybody is qualified to argue for a "home-brewed" alternative to commercial vehicle security, tracking, and monitoring services, it [...]

In a new post by the original over-gadgeted technomad, Steve Roberts hits on something I’ve been feeling as well. Quite a lot, actually, and in many aspects of my life. Perhaps it’s worth spending a moment to contemplate.
I find this kind of poignant:That was once someone’s little boatlet, zipping around the harbor, probably with an [...]

Steve Roberts is the original overgadgeted boating geek. I’ve written about him before. In that post, I said “Navagear wishes to express our heartfelt gratitude for Steve Roberts’ many contributions to the world of geeky transportation.”

Well, I finally met him in person, yesterday in Cornet Bay, with his friend Sky (climbing out of the [...]

Years and years ago, before Bitnet and Usenet had evolved into the internet we now know, there was a legend of a man. A man with a lot of cutting edge communication and networking technology…on a bicycle. A “computerized recumbent bicycle”, essentially.

This is not the story of that man.

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