WoobaGooba wrote:

airacer wrote:

To update, after using it onboard while racing, I wouldn't use anything else. Happy to find that carbon sails had no significant effect when mounted on the transom. 

With that, it would be beneficial to add functionality within Expedition to take advantage of the higher bandwith availability.

I'm curious, what is the electrical system powering your install?  AFAIK Starlink requires somewhere between 6 and 10 amps to power?  Cheers

On the race boat I did a 12v conversion. No time to test or track draw, but we ran it off of a very simple electrical system with a 60ah LifePO4 house battery charged by alternator which also ran the instruments...a sketchy charging system. We did not have it on 24/7. We charged more than normal, but nothing too excessive.

The cruiser has a full electrical system & 600ah LifePO4. The Starlink will run off any inverter, at the moment is is drawing 50w. We also have a 12v setup for it aboard, which we find the PredictWind Datahub makes a nice router in conjunction and it saves an amp or two, but found it doesn't do as well in large waves.

More info here: https://sweetruca.com/starlink-on-our-sailboat-12v-conversion-how-to/

We are running the Mobile Global plan along with the RV dish, it does seem to take a long time to connect offshore. We are halfway between Chile and French Polynesia at the moment, and sometimes it will take over 1 hour to connect. The bigger the seas and more boat motion, the longer it takes.

If the budget is there, the marine dish is certainly better offshore. It does consume a little more power, but this may even out if you only turn it on every few hours for updates on a race boat.

Bruce Sutherland wrote:

Hi

Sounds great 

Have you done anything different when installing this or just whacked it on the roof etc ?

Do you get any shading etc when sailing 

I assume that you have not had to take a dremel out and operate on the new toy etc?

Look forward to your reply 

Kind regards

Bruce

Just tossed the legs of the stand in the trash and dropped it into a west marine fishing pole holder next to the iGo antenna and ran the cable through a clam on the stern. Right now it is partially obscured under our wind gen (who has a wind gen? its a cruising boat, OK) but the app doesn't think it is obstructed.

In the last 8 hours we have had about 7 minutes of down time. Current speed is 208 Mbps down and 14 up.

We have a set of carbon sails on board, but aren't using them at the moment as we are about to sail up the Patagonia fjords (best to beat up the old cloth). Also not attempting surgery to do the motor removal and 12v conversion, but surely would if we were in a place where online order delivery was measured in days instead of months. Once gutted it will use much less electricity and weigh less than a Fleet One/Broadband.

 

Using it aboard our boat, and just live streamed and video called while sailing from Puerto Williams to Ushuaia. Also uploading videos ;) https://www.youtube.com/@sailingsweetruca

IMO anyone racing without it at this point may be at a big data disadvantage. Just use the standard windows network connections with Expedition. I really should keep this a secret until after the Mackinac races, but what the heck! 

Thanks guys. The issue is on C-Maps end. Expedition is working flawlessly.
The problem lies somewhere in C-Maps bank/credit card processing settings. It is fixable, but no one there cares to address it. Perhaps we are not important enough customers?

I am from the USA, and the card is being attempted to process in Italy. I have tried 4 different credit cards, all international with the same result. 

I used to be able to call C-Map, and they had wonderful phone/email support. Now all support requests go through Navico, which honestly I am not sure that anyone in their call center has even seen a boat. They have no idea what Expedition is.

Looking at chart detail in some of the areas we sail, the Garmin/Navionics charts are now more detailed. I am beginning to question the long-term value of purchasing additional C-Map charts under its new ownership. 

Are there any other options for charts in Expedition that would be comparable?

Maybe I have too much time on my hands, but I am always curious what additional data is available and how it can be used.

How should heave be interpreted? What is it's default unit of measurement? Does anyone use this data to review wave size/period to adjust wave polars? Can GPS Altitude be used in a similar regard?

Thanks,
Curtis