Raspberry Pi Navigation System

I have been busy setting setting up a navigation system that runs on a raspberryPi computer, a 10 inch screen and a USB GPSmouse -  that combines charts,  grib files as an overlay and ais data wirelessly sent from my Onwa ks200+ - it does weather routing as well - using wind instruments I could even get their data via SignalK. I am busy working out Polars as well, at the moment I am using polars from a Muscadet as I have not yet created a custom polar file.

here are the screenshots from the system

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 This last sunday I made a short video of Cagarro sailing on a really calm day 

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 The  Mini Atlantique 2026 have departed Horta

on the second leg back to Les Sables d´Olonne

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There are 2 youtube videos of a walk down the minis pontoons at the marina click the ROUND RED ICON on the right hand side to view them

Whenever they are here I spend a day walking the dock 

and taking lots of pictures for ideas

 Pedro Campos Sailing Setka A   

LITEN CASIK

Aveiro Portugal

This makes me so very Happy

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 20ft Flicka round the world 
via the Straits of Magellan
visits Horta on the way home to UK

I was in Horta and saw this brave boat - arrived to no fanfare or TV news
but if a voyager deserves to be interviewed this is one.

Here is a youtube video from Falklands Islands TV

I took lots of pictures (Click them to see larger versions)
because there were many interesting details -
note that the standing rigging is Synthetic - DYNEEMA, and not wire -
super strong and super light, executed almost the same as I did on
Cagarro with some small variations.

Manual bilge pump finally installed

The manual hand bilge pump - a whale MK 5  which is a 65litre/min bilge pump has finally been fitted - it now joins the previously installed automatic/manual electric pump

Horta June 2026

Dodger /Pramhood final pics

 Outside/Inside of 2 piece Companionway
- Boat Ghetto Blaster

Here is the promised view of the complete 2 piece companionway from the outside and the inside - the lower piece has a mount for the Silva 70 compass.

and I made a Japanese Cedar 12V "ghettoblaster" as well as FM radio it also plays MP3s from USB and SD

as Renaud from the 580 Capucinette says  - if you want to go fast you have your food, water, suncream in the cockpit and HANDSTEER listening to music.

 Twin Mainsheet -

Companionway washboard Portlight 

Here is the twin mainsheet installed - I have used this on my previous boats and it works really well, and it cancels out the need for a traveller. It also clears the cockpit and also enables the boom to be held in position. I may also add a boombrake system to "brake the boom" if needed later - I have a system that I used on my previous boat that slows the boom as you tack/gybe using blocks and an endless line to slow the booms travel, and also have an aluminium "figure 8 climbing descender" to use as a brake as well so there are 2 choices for that system I will use the best after trying and testing them. the only thing is they add extra "knitting" to the system.

and the top part of the two piece washboard gets a portlight

the way the bottom half closes

the 2 piece companionway washboards will be used when it is not neccesary to use

the one piece hatch that lives under the hatch garage/spraydodger

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