Just like last year, Popsci.com’s excellent Best of What’s New 2008 edit package is rich with tech that might one day trickle up to yachting. For instance, couldn’t a version of the Lexus super wide-angle integrated cameras seen above be useful in docking? How about a satellite able to…

Aside from Panbo’s able crew of regular commenters—some of whom I’ve gotten to know personally, and all of whom I appreciate—the sixty thousand plus unique monthly visitors here are a somewhat mysterious mishmash of marine electronics enthusiasts, product info searchers, and trades people. Actually I also know a lot of folks in the trade who read Panbo regularly, and have been told that several companies have a designated monitor tasked with passing along relevant entries and comments to management. How 2009/Web 2.0 cool is that? And it means that if you’d like to express your wishes for the marine electronics future, you will be heard…

That graph represents the teensy weensy difference over recent years between “real” solar system time and the time we oh-so-carefully keep with atomic clocks. As of this morning, real time—i.e. the mean sun dead south or north at noon (at the exact mid longitude of a time zone)—was 6/10ths of a second behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC or Zulu). You see, relative to the atomic clocks, the earth…

I recently spoke with Standard Horizon VP Jason Kennedy, mostly about the HX850s cracked case issue which I commented on today (and which has become a Sailing Anarchy thread). But we also discussed the future of GPS/VHF handhelds, a future that’s especially rosy as…

One reason that this holiday season seems a little gray was finding out that some bastards decided to make a few dollars by counterfeiting the Hammar H20 hydrostatic releases used on many ships to automatically deploy life rafts and EPIRBs in a desperate situation…

As gray it is, but with pinpoints of light shining through, this image (bigger here) says Christmas season 2008 for me…

Last week I wrote my March PMY column about Navico’s Broadband Radar and learned some more details in the process. The pricing, for instance, is almost finalized, and sounds decent…

The Dakar is dubbed the Worlds hardest event with a less than 35% success rate and a huge number of dangers for the competitors over the gruelling 18 day Rallye.  This years Rallye is being held in Argentina and Chile over a varied terrain to test both the competitors and their vehicles strength, stamina and endurance.

Keep an eye out for Ben on Eurosport each evening between January 4th-18th .

All at Landau UK Ltd would like to wish Ben all the very best of luck and a safe race - and take some comfort that even on late night opening at LBS Ben is still doing more hours by a factor or two!!

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Please find details about the new location.

Landau UK Ltd
Unit C                                           
Building 9                                          
Swanwick Marina
Swanwick                                        
Hampshire                             
SO31 1ZL                                          

Tel:      01489 577 588
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The company has moved as part of its continued expansion.  Landau are able to cover any modifications or installs to all motor vessels using the same equipment and consumables as the factory would use in build to ensure that all aspects of work from refit to antifouling are undistinguishable as retro work.