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Digital Yacht Products Make Liveaboard Life Easier

• By David Schmidt
• October 25, 2022

Liveaboard life can be ideal, so long as zoom works. Mark and Julie Altman learned this lesson earlier this year while anchored aboard Unruly Julie, their 22-year-old Caliber 40 LRC, near Panama City Beach, Florida.

He was on a conference call with multiple people, while she was screen-sharing with a California-based colleague. They simultaneously ran their communications through their Digital Yacht 4GXtream, which uses cellular networks to deliver onboard internet. Paired with a $20-per-month AT&T SIM card, it gives them unlimited data and unthrottled speeds.

“It just works,” Mark Altman says of their kit, which includes an AIS transmitter and an antenna splitter. “We’ve made a few other mistakes, but Digital Yacht is one that we got right.”

Nick Heyes, an electrical engineer and marine-industry veteran, founded Digital Yacht in 2011 in Somerset, England. He caught what he terms a lucky break. The automatic identification system was just reaching recreational yachts, Apple’s iPad was brand-new, and Digital Yacht’s first product—the iAIS wireless AIS receiver—fused the two with perfect market timing. The flooding AIS tide allowed his company to innovate across a range of technologies and become an international exporter.

The business—built alongside chief technology officer Paul Sumpner, director of business development and marketing Nicolas Guerin, and head of hardware engineering Akos Keleman—quickly expanded its product portfolio. Marinized black-box PCs were first, followed by data gateways, navigation software, sensors, long-range cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity solutions, TV antennas, and recently, vessel-monitoring systems that use artificial intelligence.

Digital Yacht’s products have always been open-source and certified by the National Marine Electronics Association, which lets them play nicely with third-party apps, software and hardware. In some cases, the company’s alerts and devices can be displayed on, and controlled by, third-party multifunction displays.

While Digital Yacht sells a high-definition display, Heyes has long believed that consumer-grade tablets and smartphones can be wirelessly networked via data gateways with older onboard systems to create information-rich environments for a fraction of the cost of an electronics refit.

“People walk around with $1,000 computers in their pockets that have way more processing power, speed and [screen] quality than any marine product,” Heyes says. “We can convert old and legacy data to a format that people want. … I fundamentally believe the customer is the key driver of what we need to do.”

Digital Yacht often innovates based on conversations with customers. An example is the second SIM-card port the company added to the 4GXtream. “We have a ‘make, don’t debate’ approach,” Heyes says. “If we see an idea and we think it could be successful, we bring [it] to market with 80 percent of the features. We can add features later, but we’ve got to have confidence in its reliability.”

This is where Digital Yacht’s relatively small size is advantageous. It can develop a product in less than a year, Heyes says, using a range of microprocessor libraries, an NMEA 2000 stack and a 4G interface. It’s all “a bit like Lego,” he says, with additions being made to existing products, creating new applications.

It also helps to understand boats. Heyes is a lifelong sailor, Sumpner lives on an all-electric canal boat, and Digital Yacht maintains a dedicated test boat called Gigabyte. (Heyes jokes that the next ride will be called Terabyte.)

“Globally, we have 35 people, and we do $10 million a year in revenue,” he says. The company exports to 70 countries. “We’re small, but not tiny,” he says.

While Digital Yacht’s head count is a market differentiator, so too is its production strategy. The company manufactures 90 percent of its product in the UK and 10 percent in France. It’s considering expanding manufacturing to the United States. “Shipping and freight are super-expensive,” he says.

Looking ahead, Heyes envisions ever-evolving user interfaces and increased use of artificial intelligence. This past November, the company unveiled NavAlert, a monitoring system that uses artificial intelligence to scrutinize any parameter on a yacht’s N2K network, allowing for smart anchor-drift alarms and AIS-based collision alarms. Should a default or customer-dictated threshold trip, the system records the data and triggers onboard audio and visual alarms. Users can pair a NavAlert with a 4GXtream cellular modem, allowing NavAlert to transmit notifications autonomously.

NavChat is expected to arrive this year, converting NavAlert’s ones and zeros into nouns and verbs. NavChat “takes the NavAlert alarm and turns it into a spoken alarm,” Heyes says. It should allow boaters to set alarm parameters using a single MFD.

These days, whether it’s AIS or AI, Digital Yacht makes a product for almost every type of yacht, so long as it involves data and DC power. After all, you just might find yourself at anchor, collaborating with co-workers while your first mate screen-shares with a colleague a continent away—all for a fraction of the airtime cost of an at-home connection. The upshot is that liveaboard life can be ideal.

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In 2011, Digital Yacht collected a DAME Design Award for its iAIS wireless AIS system. This year, it earned a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the most prestigious award the monarchy bestows upon British businesses. 

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The following article explains how to use Signal K on a Windows PC to interface Digital Yacht’s iKonvert (wired) or NavLink2 (wireless) NMEA 2000 gateways to the popular OpenCPN navigation software. Both gateways are NMEA 2000 certified, galvanically isolated and support full Signal K functionality.

Until recently, Signal K had been mostly associated with the Raspberry Pi, providing boaters with the necessary technical expertise, with a cost effective way to read and display NMEA data. The reality is, that Signal K is an Open Marine Data standard that can, in theory, be run on any hardware or operating system.

Last year, OpenCPN the most widely used “open source” marine navigation software, released an important update that supported the Signal K data format. This update allowed OpenCPN users to take all the data they needed from a Signal K server (running on a Raspberry Pi or similar low cost hardware) that in turn was connected to the NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000 equipment on the boat.

Purchasing, installing and configuring a Raspberry Pi has got a lot easier of late, but it is still not for everyone and so it was really exciting to learn that the Signal K has recently been ported to Microsoft Windows. Now you can easily download and install the free Signal K Server software on any Windows PC, still the most popular platform for OpenCPN users. If you click on the link above, you will see that the process is well documented and was very straight forward.

Once installed, you will have a couple of new shortcuts on your Windows’ desktop; one to Start the Signal K server and the other to open a browser and display the Signal K server’s web interface.

I also created a third one to Stop the Signal K Service, by making a copy of the Start Signal K Service and then changing the Properties to run the Stop Signal K Service program.

Now whenever you want to run the Signal K Service, just click on the Start Signal K Service shortcut and the server will start running in the background. The following terminal window will be briefly displayed.

After about 10-20 seconds, you should be able to click on the “SignalK-GUI” shortcut and Windows should open a web browser and display the Signal K Server’s web interface (Dashboard).

The next step is to setup whichever Digital Yacht gateway product that you have bought to connect to the NMEA 2000 network; iKonvert (see below) or NavLink2 (skip down to next section).

iKonvert wired (USB) NMEA 2000 gateway

The following procedure takes you through the setup of your iKonvert as a Signal K Data Connection….

• Install the USB drivers which you can download from here .
• Open the iKonvert box and set the four DIP switches inside to the “ON” (Up) position.
• Power cycle the NMEA 2000 network, so that the iKonvert starts in its “RAW” NMEA 2000 mode.
• Plug the iKonvert’s USB cable in to the PC and check in the Windows Device Manager what serial COM Port number the iKonvert has been allocated.
• Start or Restart, if already running, the Signal K Service so that it sees the new COM port
• After logging in to the Signal K server, go to Server>Data Connections and click the “Add” button.
• Select NMEA 2000 as the “Data Type”, enter a meaningful name in the “ID” field and then select iKonvert (canboatjs) in the “NMEA 2000 Source” drop down list.
• You should then select the Serial Port COM number that you found in the Device Manager and make sure you set the Baud Rate to 230400.
• Once everything is setup as shown below, scroll down and click the “Apply” button.

Now Restart the Signal K server and you should see a new Data Connection, called iKonvert or whatever ID you gave it, in the top right corner of the Dashboard. Your setup of the iKonvert USB is now complete and you can skip down to the Setting Up OpenCPN section.

NavLink2 wireless NMEA 2000 Gateway

The following procedure takes you through the setup of your NavLink2 as a Signal K Data Connection….

• Turn on the NMEA 2000 network and ensure the NavLink2 is powered up.
• Scan for wireless networks and either connect to the NavLink2’s Access Point or if you are using it in Station mode, connect to the same wireless network that the NavLink2 is connected to.
• Select NMEA 2000 as the “Data Type”, enter a meaningful name in the “ID” field and then select NavLink2 (canboatjs) in the “NMEA 2000 Source” drop down list.
• You should then enter the IP address of the NavLink2 in to the Host field and set the Port to 2000.

Now Restart the Signal K server and you should see a new Data Connection, called NavLink2 or whatever ID you gave it, in the top right corner of the Dashboard. Your setup of the NavLink2 is now complete and you can proceed to the Setting Up OpenCPN section.

Setting Up OpenCPN

Once the Signal K Server is setup and receiving NMEA 2000 data via one of our gateways, the last step is to setup OpenCPN to use the Signal K server as one of its data connections. Basically, the Signal K server will send data through a special Localhost “Loopback” connection, which is a neat and efficient way for one application to send data to another application both running on the same PC. Localhost connections use a 127.0.0.1 IP address which is not on a physical network, but just an internal “virtual” network on the PC.

To setup OpenCPN to use the Signal K service, go to Settings>Connections in OpenCPN and add a new Network connection.

Enter the Address of your PC and port 3000, which is the default for the Signal K Server and give the connection a meaningful name in the User Comment box. You can also tick the Automatic server discovery and click the “Discover now” button. You should see the message “Signal K server available” appear.

Once setup click “Apply” and you should see the new connection appear in the connection list.

Finally click the “OK” button and you should start to see the NMEA 2000 data being used by OpenCPN. Currently, there is not much additional data that OpenCPN makes use of from the NMEA 2000 network, compared to NMEA 0183, but this will hopefully change in the future.

In the meantime, you can use the very flexible “ Instrument Panel ” web app that is included with the Signal K Server, to add extra displays to supplement those already supported by OpenCPN. The screen shot below, shows a normal OpenCPN display, with the Gauges populated with data from the NMEA 2000 network, plus some extra Instrument Panels below the OpenCPN window, showing the status of a Vetus E-Line 10KW 48v Electric Engine .

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Surging popularity in superyachts is driving Canadian designers and shipbuilders to push the limits of innovation and craftsmanship, redefining the opulence of life at sea in the process.

According to VesselsValue, a provider of vessel valuation and market perspective for the maritime industry, 887 superyachts – pleasure vessels larger than 24 metres (78 feet) – were sold in 2021, more than double the 429 sold in 2019.

“When I began, there were about 25 boats over a hundred feet under construction in the whole world,” says Greg Marshall, president and CEO of Gregory C. Marshall Naval Architect, Ltd. (GCMNA) in Victoria. “Now [we’re working on] that amount in our office.”

Over the past 45 years, Marshall has designed some of the most innovative and luxurious superyachts in the world including designs for Canadian builders like Neptunus Yachts in St. Catharines, Ont., and Crescent Custom Yachts in Richmond, B.C.

He suspects the big change in the volume of people buying superyachts is largely the result of improved telecommunications, which give people the ability to work anywhere – even on their boat.

“Where you are is a lot less important than it used to be,” he says. “People are used to running a billion-dollar business from their phone.”

The designs reflect that. A growing class of superyachts is blending luxury and cutting-edge technology to elevate the experience of life at sea.

“Nowadays, it doesn’t have to be the fastest boat on Earth,” says Eric Gaudette, a broker with ITA Yachts Canada , an international yacht brokerage based in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. “People are looking for comfort.”

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For some, comfort takes the shape of expansive flybridge decks – a raised platform on a yacht – with a full wet bar for entertaining. To others, it’s space for “toys” like submersibles, helicopters and car collections.

“There are now planes that land on water that you can put on the swim platform,” says Gaudette. “They’re short-range and just for fun, but the sky’s the limit.”

One of GCMNA’s recent superyacht designs is 425 feet long and carries a 70-foot yacht on the deck. “It’s got a 35-foot EarthRoamer – a two-and-a-half-million-dollar camper – on board, a couple of Teslas, a collection of Cobra cars, landing barges to take all the stuff ashore, two 10-passenger helicopters and two submarines,” says Marshall. “You just look at the toy collection on board and it’s probably $50- or $60-million.”

It’s one of several boats GCMNA has designed for this particular client (he declined to mention the owner’s name, noting that projects are referred to with four-digit codes for security reasons). “The owner names all of the boats after his dog King Benji,” says Marshall. “The first criterion [for a boat design] is that it includes a dog park for King Benji to go wander around and take a pee.”

Greg Marshall with a 10-foot-scale model of the KB6, a 45-metre (150-foot) global explorer superyacht registered in Bikini, Marshall Islands, which will be delivered to its owner in January 2024. Chad Hipolito

It’s reflective of a change in the way people are using their boats, a shift Marshall has witnessed throughout his career. In the past, yachts tended to act as a mobile wealth platform.

“If you had to move to a different country, you could move your boat with all your paintings, sculptures, fine artwork and gold,” he says. “Typically, the design of the boat was oriented toward looking inwards at your stuff.”

Recently, that’s shifted to looking outward and exploring. “It’s much more oriented toward, ‘How many electric dirt bikes can I put on there? Can I get my surfboards on the chopper? Where does my submarine go? Can I play pickleball on the roof?’” he says. “How that changes a boat’s design is [the] accommodations are reducing in size and toy storage is increasing enormously.”

Pushing the limits of innovation

Gaudette says there’s also a growing emphasis on innovating the passenger experience. He points to gyroscopic stabilization, a system which neutralizes the roll of a boat. “It kind of gets rid of the motion sickness,” says the Canadian yacht broker.

This technology is present on a lot of GMCNA-designed vessels – whether for cruising or zero-speed stabilization. Marshall says they even used the technology to design a “gyro-stabilized” dog bed for King Benji to help offset the dog’s seasickness.

There are other ways to stabilize these boats and increase passenger comfort. GMCNA is currently designing a pair of 180-foot vessels with wings that help keep it level when it’s running at faster speeds. “Our client has spent a serious amount of money – multiple millions of dollars – developing and tank-testing these foils to keep the boat level,” he says.

Alongside battery banks to offset fuel use and technology that cuts running noise down to a barely perceptible 28 decibels, the superyachts being designed and launched over the past couple of years are improving the passenger experience by reducing fuel smell and noise.

Gaudette says high-tech communication is also being incorporated. He points to Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet. “It’s one of the big gadgets – it’s pricey [but critical] if you want a boat that’s connected or you are going to work from your yacht.”

Marshall says he’s designed 43 boats for one client over the past 35 years, all of which the client still owns.

“He probably spends 300 days a year on board his boats,” says Marshall. “He just looks at his boats as homes now, down to having the bathroom in the same location so he doesn’t forget where to go when he wakes up in the middle of the night.”

And that client isn’t an anomaly. Alongside a surge in superyachts is an affluential younger generation raised in a world of mobility. “We’ve got three customers 30 years or younger that we’re doing 250-foot boats for,” says Marshall. “For them, they have never known not being portable.”

To Marshall, the height of luxury is freedom and superyachts exemplify that.

“It’s all about playing all day long,” he says. “Then somewhere, buried in the boat, is a three-star Michelin chef that will make you a great meal in between.”

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