ECDIS - cool gizmo for the electronics savvy sailor to pine for

8:25 PM Tue 8 Feb 2011 GMT

'ECDIS - all in one screen' .

Like good electronics? Eat your heart out for the latest cool gizmo, the ECDIS! Maybe you think you have a good electronic charting system, radar and AIS and an excellent way of getting the weather. Maybe you do, but what if you had them all together in one foolproof system? - It's called the ECDIS, and all you need, apart from perhaps a little more space on the yacht, is money. Any self respecting sailor with a penchant for good electronics would have to pine for an ECDIS. The Electronic Chart Display and Information System is all things combined so ...

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by Nancy Knudsen.