Preparing for a Digital Transition

Before we put any experimental (Fortune Hill developed) hardware or software on Muse 10 we need to reset the baseline on the electronic infrastructure.

Over the 2014/2015 winter we developed a plan to refresh the network, add an AIS transceiver, add WI-FI to the boat, and add a NMEA 2000 backbone to bring the boat to the 21st century. This post will describe in brief this little journey.

I’ve diagrammed out the current state of affairs.   One thing I’ve found on this boat is an abundance of wire that goes nowhere.  I’m either marking it or pulling it out when possible.

Current Boat Network Diagram

More next week……