The Catalina 320 Yacht's Log

The Wakespeed WS-500 alternator regulator produces log files, but are in text format and hard to read. I have created a VBA macro for E...

The TLDR of this article: You should be in Neutral gear while sailing. There is a common discussion among sailors on what gear you shoul...

A Hull Identification Number (HIN) is an identifier meant to uniquely identify a particular vessel. They are the equivalent of a Vehicl...

I did some investigating in the Coast Guard database of registered vessels , looking at the range of the Catalina 320 hull numbers vers...

In boating, the term MMSI is used a lot, but what does it really mean? I'll break it down and give some references where you can ge...

This is a summary of all of the information necessary to install a Raspberry Pi on a boat. Although there are a lot of steps, the proce...

We are getting close to finishing the update to our wiring on our 1994 Catalina 320 Achernar . As the boat came, it had the original Ra...

This is going to be a rant about 3M Marine Adhesive Sealant 5200 and why you shouldn't use it on your boat. If you are not ...

A new addition to our boat is the ability to log all of our travels. To do so, we added a Raspberry Pi powered by the boat's 12V sy...

We found a perfect cutting board to go onto the stove top of the Seaward Hillerange Model 2172 stove that came with our 1994 Catalina 3...

Most places that you charter a boat, you need to get a certification to show that you are qualified. The two organizations that provide...

This is a brain dump of what I've figured out about boat networks. There are devices on a boat that need to talk to each other, need...

Tyee Yacht Club raft up. We are the third boat from the left...the small on...