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It looks to be just a pair of larger flat panels with the same style positioning mechanism as the rectangular dishes.

The owner wrote: “The crew made a valiant effort to secure the boat with both a front and rear anchor, but Mother Nature was too strong and the rocks breached a hole in the bottom of the hull by tearing off starboard stabilizer.”

A direct route from Vancouver to the Gulf Islands via Active Pass, for example, takes you through the tip of that triangle of US waters off of Point Roberts. Took that route the other day and did not check in with CBP.

Fins again? Rethinking stabilization options on my next boat.

Once they have lots of interconnected satellites, including in highly inclined and polar orbits, why would a flat panel terminal ever need to steer a part of the sky where it would interfere with geostationary satellites, even at the equator? Also/alternatively, why could the terminals not be...

My bet would be on a completely solid state terminal with no pointing motors similar to the Iridium Certus, relying entirely on finer (and more expensive) beam steering by the phased array.

The only way to contact a human at Starlink as far as I have been able to discover is to submit a question on their support page and then say that the canned result did not answer your question. From there you will get a form that you can use to email support. There is no contact email or phone...

Speaking as a Juneau boy who grew up boating there I’d have to say the opposite in most of Glacier Bay. The shores drop steeply into deep water outside of the few anchorages in the upper bay. There are a few drying rocks outside the entrance to S Sandy Cove near where she sunk that could have...

Perhaps I could decorate it for the holidays.

Surprised it didn’t come up in my survey. Also doesn’t seem like my PO (who was stickler) to leave a MacGyver job in place. But you never know. Installing a proper vacuum indicator when I’m next back in port.

2001 Nordic Tug, two years new to me, can’t find any documentation explaining what this stalk is bolted on top of my fuel water separator assembly where I would expect a vacuum indicator might be.

Apparently not, thank goodness! If anything, I’d bet the fact that Dish couldn’t point to any examples of interference occurring despite many people posting that they had used Starlink in motion supported the decision.

Dish says they have, but an “invite only beta” seems to be stretching the requirement.

Starlink’s complaint as I understand it is not just that Dish is understating the potential for interference with its service, but that it is effectively squatting on its rights by doing the absolute minimum build out required to hold on to them (and really not even that) rather than making an...

Dish doesn’t have any vested rights in that spectrum. The FCC’s operating principle is use it or lose it. SpaceX is using it and there is no reason it should have to pay a dime to Dish while they fail to build out their network at the pace they promised to the FCC in the first place. We as...

Done!

New update includes Bedwell.

Looks like they are ready to start providing service north of 53 degrees as soon as the FCC lets them. https://wccftech.com/starlink-ready-to-turn-on-laser-satellites-for-internet-coverage/ OneWeb is supposedly operating there now but I haven’t been able to find any providers you can actually...

The App Store page says it was updated one month ago with additional ports of entry, but Bedwell apparently wasn’t one of them.

It just scans the numbers off your passport, takes a picture of your vax card. The pick list for ports of entry doesn’t list Bedwell (and probably other minor marine ports of entry in the Gulf Islands). The CBSA officer I talked to on the phone audibly groaned at the oversight and told me to...

Worked flawlessly for us at the dock in Princess Louisa and (I’ll admit) underway back down the length of Jervis Reach, where I did a four hour zoom call tending the autopilot at the helm while my wife finished a project in the salon. Scarcely a hiccup the whole way.

Residential with portability. Service address set to some remote cell in Eastern Washington.

I met a guy on the dock today in Pender Harbour who had the round “Dishy McDishface” terminal on the aft rail of his sailboat and it adjusted its position while we were talking. Just once though. I have mostly been turning my own off while underway but in the name of science I left it on during...

The full Dashew: https://setsail.com/optimizing-for-night-vision/

I have a powerful Rigid M-Series light bar on top of my pilot house. It’s good for picking out markers, shore features, and other boats, but the water just swallows it up. I can’t imagine how much brighter it would have to be to see something like a deadhead in the water on a dark night.