OLD BOATS, NEW TRICKS

Airmar recently introduced an NMEA 2000 multinetwork gateway that allows boat owners to do what may not have been practical before: convert a solid, reliable 20-year-old sport-fisher into a modern, digitally monitored billfishing battlewagon. Airmar calls it SmartBoat, and it allows the retrofit to be done in a manner so low in labor intensity and so cost effective, fishermen are likely to see this retrofit being as necessary, convenient, and beneficial as hauling the boat for new bottom paint.

A flexible sensor interface allows the installer to define the function and protocol of each input