After spending the day trying to remove a rusted and damaged windlass on the Hatteras Yacht, we head back to the land house. I show how we made a 15 inch chart plotter / navigation screen for only $125 and an old cell phone.
Nothing like being a captain of a yacht and knowing how to fix issues- you really have become a worthy captain of the high seas two thumbs up 👍🏻👍🏻 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Speaking from experience, it's always a heart stopping moment when you discover wet, rotting plywood anywhere on your boat. I had to rebuild both of the lazarette hatches in the floor of my cockpit deck last year. However, at least I'll never find any rot there again after the repairs, thanks to the miracle of Coosa board.
@@tryingnottosink9107 I sincerely hope you have better luck than I did. When I first bought my boat ten years ago, I too found the loose bolts on the windless. The surveyor had totally missed seeing any problem with it, but when I took it apart, I found lots of problems. Water had gotten down both the bolt holes and under the cat head and into the actual hole in the deck the windless drive comes up through. It had rotted an area of my bow deck of about 3 square feet. Even worse, it had gotten into the back end of my bow pulpit and rotted the aft six inches of it too. The pulpit had to be removed, disassembled and have the entire core replaced. I was sad for weeks after that bill. Oh well, having a big yard bill is still better than going to set your anchor and having your pulpit break loose from the hull...lol. Had a friend that had that happen in the Bahamas. Yikes!
Wow who needs a iPad Pro for over £2000. When phones are just as powerful and for £100 you can get one of those. Very impressed thank you. Thanks for sharing Ray K UK 🇬🇧 YNWA.
Cheaper😂, I don't think so. Smarter! I actually really enjoy doing projects like this. It gives you/me such satisfaction to do these boat jobs. I find paying a "professional " sometimes/mostly doesn't equate to a professional job. I've got a 1980 Gulfstar44 so projects are always on going. But hey, that's boat life.🛥🍻
This is such a great idea. I dont have a boat anymore but will again in the future... after the kids get through college. I'll go with a touchscree panel so I don't have to mess with the phone much. Don't know why I didn't think ove this already. Lol. Subed
oh my that windlass looks fun. just got a 40' richardson we will be doing the loop with one day. great videos, racking all the info i can on boating lol thanks keep it up
Great idea, now I just have to see if I can find a monitor that’s bright enough. I know that when I was looking at tablets they measured brightness in nits, so I’m on looking for some thing that has brighter than 600 nits, my iPhone 12 has around 800 nits and looks great but it is a little small so if I could find a monitor that had similar brightness at 15 inches or even 12 inches that would be great. Thanks for the idea
Awesome video. Lived the ‘creepy’ background sounds! There’s been a windlass conversation on Sams right now. Also a mini nightmare. The electronics ideas you have are always welcome. This one is cool. And..... another great video. 👍 Very well done. 😃
Your trip into the bow reminded me of having to work on a 5.5 meter (transmitting) satellite dish. The "hub" was about the size of a 55 gallon drum, and it was me, a squirrel cage blower to keep the feed from freezing, the transmitter and the amplifier for the receiver. Oh, and a very greasy chain that would always jump off the sprocket if you tried to move it when it was iced up. Ten minutes to put the chain back once you finally got up in there...
Did a similar thing where I have a 15.6" touchscreen tethered to my samsung s21. Works amazing. Use a seasucker to mount it up on the dash. Works PERFECT!
Great idea about using your phones gps abilities. You could probably use it without wifi too. Just download the maps you need to your phone and the gps does not need wifi to work, however , with wifi it may be more accurate. Realize that all gps on phones are not equal, depending on how many satellites your phone will compare determines your accuracy. When I use to travel all over the world as an airline pilot I would use a global mapping app, such as cities to go, and use the phone without wifi or cell data to not get lost in the big cities of the world, Paris, London, Beijing, Hong Kong, etc.
It works very well. We use multiple device with different views, so we always have a second opinion on GPS location. We are big believers in redundancy!
Dude, you have me laughing with the long hair and the PJs. On a serious note, I continue to appreciate your research. I’m in the serious stage of purchasing an 410 Chris-Craft Commander. Your videos embolden me (within reason), damn the naysayers. I’ve got skills.
Hi, great idea to use such a solution to mirror your phone on a screen. Are you able to use it as a touchscreen with Navionics or do you control it from your phone? So in other words does the touchscreen respond on finger inputs or is that only possible on your phone with a mirrored image on the 15 inch screen?
Hi Ed, great video. Just a thought, you can also pair a Bluetooth mouse to that Note 8 so you can navigate on the monitor without having to mess with the phone's touch screen. Just a thought. Cheers!
@@billstobie4872 that’s what i’m planning to do. I have a touchscreen monitor at the helm connected to a Windows PC in de cabin. Now i would like to connect a Samsung device with DeX to my Windows computer (you can download DeX for Windows 10/11). Now the question is. Will my touchscreen monitor work as it does not have a keyboard or mouse?
Lovely idea with the 15" monitor. However, for navigation it will still be dependent on the phone for the essential GPS signal. And far enough from shore the phone can not provide a GPS signal. So...options are then either a separate GPS receiver to another USB port, or buy a tablet that has a GPS signal built in. Correct?
Hi Ed, my name is Uwe from Germany. Thanks a lot for the nice videos you share with us. I struggled over it while searching for intresting solutions for my Bayliner 275 here in Germany. Well the boat runs in Beglium, which ist jaust near my home. Anyhow I would like to write to you today, as I had nearly the same idea as you had with the monitor. BUT I didn't like the need to touch the small mobile surface for settings or Apps to open. After searching and trying a lot I found a solution that does it all-in-one!!! It is the "V7 L156TCH-1G 15.6" USB-C Portable Touch Screen Monitor". It has all the features you told us about PLUS the possibility to touch the large screen to use all mobile functions. So it is a true display mirror of my mobile. and that ist really the best I ever saw as solution. You may use every App on the mobile when ever you want behind the streering wheel of your boat - incl. WhatsApp.... Best regards, from good old Germany and "always a hand's breadth of water under the keel" as we say here. ;o)
You may want to consider a different phone like a newer one. As phones become older the batteries don’t age well. And in extreme cases they turn in a fire risk. I would look in to a cheap new phone that is specked the same
It’s a Niuto 14 inch touch screen from amazon: 4K Portable Touch Monitor Travel Screen Second Touchscreen Extender UHD USB C Computer Gaming for Laptop 14.0 Inch 3840 X 2160 IPS Compatible with Mac,MacBook,Nintendo Switch
Great idea with the monitor. I was wondering how you were going to deal with charging the battery, but it sounds like you’ve come up with a good solution. I don’t envy you when you get back to the project you are currently working on the boat. Good luck with that one, and I’ll await the next video to see how everything turns out. Keep the videos coming. I enjoy what you and Lynn produce. Great job!...Ed
Well done, and of course one question. How can you charge that old phone when it is connected to the monitor? After an all day cruise, I imagine the phone will lose its charge.
The c clip on the windless holds the chain hub down on the shaft. It probably popped out or wasn't installed correctly. Looks like you opened a big project up this time. Stay warm.
I have a 61 Hatt MY in Baltimore and went through some windlass work last winter into this past spring. My motor was rusted and eventually failed. It’s replaced with a rebuilt one and I have added a sunbrella cover over the windlass and switches to keep water from getting into there again.
they got a rasberry pi 8gb ram model out now good for open cpn. gonna be building a system myself using that. gonna use nmea 2000 and seatalk adapters as well. can setup ais as well.
I saw you a few years ago, and watched some of your early videos. I don't know if it's because you were a politician before or something else, but you did then and still currently give off strong creep vibes. I hope you never end up in a slip next to me. I've never yet been wrong about these feelings. I'd be curious how estranged you are from your family. Almost be willing to bet they are embarrassed to be related to you.
100 dollars or so, you can get a brand new Amazon fire hd... ten minutes later have it hacked to android format. Easy RU-vid search, granted not your 15" screen but still nice, could always beam the screen to a larger tv.
Lynn break out the swizzzors on Ed's Hair! it is getting out of control! For the idea on using the note 8 to drive a Monitor that is great! this leads to many possibilities.
you seem up on computing nav stuff. suggestions yu might have for a complete novice. I am in middle Tennessee getting a boat ready may use within next two years to float down to the Gulf go out and fish a bit. Thinking radar, sonar, fish finder, navigation and radio but all linked in. Is that a possibility? And kinds that are best invest?
Yes, they can all be linked together. Since you want radar, you would need a ready built system, like Garmin or Foruno. If you can live without Radar (we can't) you can just use tablets and apps like Navionics and Sonarphone. They would link together through Wifi and Blue Tooth. We use a combination. Our radar is on our old Foruno Plotter that came with the boat. Everything else is an app on the tablets. We did several videos on our set up a couple years ago.
Ed, your wifi on the boat can be solved by T-Mobile. Ask about their 100gb data plan for $50 monthly. It is 5G and they will sell you a 5G mifi (Inseego) for 50% off. You’ll have great service anywhere you can get T-Mobile service.
Im down the same road. Most display manufactures charactarize thier display as outdoor readable at a brighness of 800 nits. Typical crlphones are 250 - 350 nits. I got a 60$ samsung 10.1 android 4 42 and 425 nits. Mirror my lowrance to it over on boat wifi and with a display visor, pretty readable. Sendit back and continuing my quest for a daylight readable 15-17 inch display to pair with an old hdmi out android phone wich will run the mirroring fom my console fishfinder.
Any ideas on how to add navionics or similar without the phone? Stand alone GPS receiver? Love your idea of the larger monitor, maybe even a touch screen? Sketchy reception on our phone on our lake but really need a chart plotter or map to avoid the shallow spots. Someone else asked as well but the monitor holders you utilize currently on your dash, where did you get those please? Love your channel too, the good with the bad makes it real!
You do not need the phone for Navionics. You can download the apps from wifi. We have it running on several $200 tablets as well as the phone. You can also use a mini computer like a Raspberry Pie to run it and use the 15 inch monitor. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079TGWRNR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Looks like a super fun job! Just an FYI, if the WD-40 doesn't work, get some stuff the is called PB Blaster! The stuff is amazing at getting rusty stuff apart! I have used it on exhaust bolts on cars from New York and they came off without breaking! Any way to get a fan blowing up into that hole to speed up the drying process? Good luck with the repairs!
Do you have any ideas on how to couple your monitor to the nmea2000 network? I have the same problem with my windlass. Too old to repair. time to buy a new one.
what was that gps module we could hook up to a laptop and use with open source software to make a charter plotter too? I've found and lost again. Could anyone help? Thnk you.
where did you get this screen at and what cord will allow my phone to be viewed on that screen is there a program that has to be downloaded to the phone?
Only thing I see is your old phone don’t you have to have that phone active on an account. I’m thinking about the same type of thing I would like 2 chart plotter screens.
I have thought the same thing about my old iPads. The thing is, you will need to start the phone bill back up on it to use Navionics, right? I use my phone and a 12.9” IPad Pro right now alongside my Raymarine Axiom on the flybrige. i want to use the old ones on the lower helm. The iPads use cell service. Honestly, I’ve never tried them with the cell off, but my guess is that they won’t work with Navionics. I hope I’m wrong!
To answer my own question I just tried it with my cell and WiFi off and it seemed to work fine. I guess it just uses GPS and the info that is already loaded. Thanks for the info!
@@tryingnottosink9107 thanks so much. If you all only knew how much you have helped us in our cruising. If we ever cross paths, I’ll make sure and send you off with some super Tennessee whiskey.
@@tryingnottosink9107 Well, if your new look begins attracting the attention of centerfold quality women, be sure to tell me immediately. Whenever I'm working on my boat in the marina, all I ever seem to attract are old, retired guys drinking beer, who stop by to tell me how I'm "doing it all wrong."
It is not a touch screen, but the phone is. Our airtime is unlimited, but it doesn't use much. We actually stopped using this system on the bridge because I kept having problems with the USB cords.
Ed, you mentioned you have Wifi on your boat for navigation so I assume you have it while underway. My question is how do you get Wifi on your boat while cruising?
When I am cruising in the States, I just use my phone as a hotspot. Between my phone and Lyn's we have 50 gig available. I am thinking of adding a dedicated hot spot, like the Franklin from T-Mobile. I also have a wifi extender on the boat, which can pick up my phone hot spot, or any other wifi at a local marina or Starbucks. When I am in the Bahamas, I rent a "MyIslandWifi" for $50 per month but supposedly T-Mobile will work there. I guess I'll see this Spring. The last time I was ther I was on AT&T.
Anything available that you could have a big touchscreen working through your phone? To change the display on your system you have to have the phone handy, yes?
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0885RN8FQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I do not know if they still sell it. No GPS. I just use the phone for GPS.
Is the monitor touch? I know most phones allow usb keyboard and mouse controls so a touch screen monitor should work and be perfect for a chart tablet.
I have heard it is. I do not think it originated from the loose bolts. I think they were loose because of the rusted mount. Perhaps I will figure it out once I get everything apart.
@@tryingnottosink9107 The reason I ask is that we might consider a Hatteras as a live-aboard. I do like the layout of these MY's. Of course every boat has its quirks, it's just good to go in eye's open. Really enjoy your channel! Cheers from Vancouver Island, BC.
