Dissatisfied with the leads to their very own crusing expertise of looking for a straightforward, extra inexpensive approach to route plan and navigate, the founders of SailProof in 2020 launched the rugged, waterproof SP08 pill. Their aim was to supply sailors who use a PC for route preparation and navigation a troublesome pill with a excessive battery capability to final greater than an extended day of crusing, a display screen that’s really readable in vibrant daylight, and with wifi and G4 connectivity, amongst different key options. Now the corporate, primarily based in Belgium and Spain, has added the 10-inch STS10 to its choices to resolve one other subject—”the impossibility of following one’s course within the cockpit with out happening to the chart desk.”
In discussions with sailors competing in Beneteau Figaro class—most of whom are Adrena customers—they discovered how troublesome and even harmful it’s to need to go beneath to navigate on the PC itself. “Duplicating the PC display screen on a pill isn’t probably the most sensible alternative, so we wished to supply an easier, extra inexpensive resolution, whereas retaining the options for which SailProof is famend,” the corporate says in a press launch. “That is why we’re launching a sunlight-readable 10.1-inch waterproof touchscreen. Rated to IP65 and providing an distinctive brightness of 1500 NITS, this display screen includes a 100% waterproof 2-metre cable harness, prolonged by particular person cables for direct energy provide from the boat’s battery, HDMI connection and contact perform (USB). Merely plug it in like a second display screen on the PC put in on the chart desk, set up it on a VESA-compatible mount and you may by no means have to depart the cockpit or look away from the ocean to examine your place.” $554 at sailproof.shop.
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