Ideas to give

If it thinks to give something for the day of Kings or a birthday, as much exist hundreds of possibilities for which they have boat, like for they will have which it. In order little by little to improve the equipment of our boat, or to learn all that with the sea and the boats.

Many possibilities and in a range of prices exist that starts off just a few from Euros. If it wants to have a detail with a friend, it is not necessary to spend a fortune. For example, why not an acoustic fog warning device of which they work without gas bottle. He is very useful, like we could verify in an occasion in which it surprised a persistent fog to us that left us without compressed air cartridges. And best its price less than 10 Euros.

From accessories like prism binocular, a polar article or a termolactil t-shirt, a watertight stock market to wear always dry clothes, lanterns that work without batteries and can obtain less than in the great surfaces by 10 Euros, to Gps portable that offer benefits more and more.

Watertight bags of all the sizes exist. We will be able to use them with movable telephones, cameras of photos, agendas,…  Greatest they are thought to wear always dry to all the clothes or equipment of photography, video, music,…

A second portable Gps for the boat is a good element of very recommendable security in case it failed the navigation equipment and that it can be obtained from 150€.

Plastimo finishes removing a small lantern with 12 lights LED from low consumption that incorporates a red translucent tube that can be fitted in front of the center to create a great red luminous signal of 53 centimeters of height with tripod to leave positioned it in vertical.

In the illumination chapter a very useful and economic gift is the frontal light that will be able to find in many stores of sports. They have white light or red, they cost few tens of Euros, they are very comfortable to take, and illuminate much thanks to new the LED of high power. Some advanced models as Petzl XP even has an illumination way I disturb that during about 20 seconds they give a 50% more of illumination.

The great marks like Simrad, Raymarine, Garmin, or Furuno arrives this year with many new features in instrumentation and equipment from last generation. New receivers for the vanes exist that work without movable parts by means of ultrasounds. Expensive but very effective lasting and trustworthy.

The arrastrables in all varied forms are an authentic one enjoyed, that yes, for the summer!

Geonav has removed to the market a new GPS model “G3” as large as a movable telephone than weight 110 grams from weight and is only able to read cartography Navionics Platinum and with which it will be able to feel as much totally informed into his position in the sea as in the mountain. In fact Integra a cartridge of memory Navionics Outdoor that even indicates all the tracks of ski and the mechanical repairs! In its marine way, the G3 conserves the functions of plotter with autozoom, rotation of the letter, amplifier of screen, way day/night,… Its last version more outpost “S” will have digital barograph and electronic compass. Somebody gives more by only 490€?

New screens ST70 of Raymarine allow to form themselves to show to everything a complete system of navigation. Naturally they work under NMEA 2000 and they can interpret in his screen TFT of 3.5 inches, visible to total sun, any data of navigation in digital format or analogical simulation of great clarity.

New systems AIS already are available in the market to prices that begin to be accessible for the pocket of the fan. (to see article on “Systems AIS”) Furuno offers the FA30, or also the new AIS250 of Raymarine.

Nearly money also can be equipped with VHF a portable one that represents an element of additional security and with that in addition we will be able to contact with the boat if we disembarked in a beach. Navicom only offers new model RT-300 by 79€. The Viking company finishes removing to the market a new beacon to satelitar of small size to be taken in the life raft. Epirb MT410 arranges besides receiver GPS which allows to send very effective signals of aid. The batteries come guaranteed by 7 years.  

For his diesel engine also they have left peculiar accessories like the new magnet clip that is placed around the oil filter of the motor to attract and to leave in the filter metallic particles of size quiet inferior to the pore of the filter and that circulates around the circuit wearing away the pieces of the motor. Naturally the magnet is re-usable then when the coarse filter with returning it changes to put around the new filter.