Best way to get data inside cabin

JRT

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Feb 14, 2017
2,037
Catalina 310 211 Lake Guntersville, AL
I was working from my Catalina 310 last week and the wind was howling and raining. I have the original Raymarine ST 60 wind, tridata and autopilot instruments and they are all working great so don't plan to replace any time soon. I was thinking I would love to have the wind and tridata in the cabin for situational awareness, is there and easy way to do this? Not sure I want to sink a ton into this either but thought it might be nice to have available.
 

senang

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Oct 21, 2009
304
hunter 38 Monaco
The only solution I know of is to add a wifi emitting router to the Seatalk network and an app on you phone.
 
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Ted

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Jan 26, 2005
1,254
C&C 110 Bay Shore, Long Island, NY
You can install a Raymarine ST60 Multi instrument in your cabin. It will display/repeat all of the data that is on the rest of your instruments. You will only have to run a single wire (Seatalk cable) from one of your existing instruments to the multi. No other transducers are necessary. Pretty simple.
 
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Aug 1, 2011
3,972
Catalina 270 255 Wabamun. Welcome to the marina
Or an i70, which is the latest version and does sone stuff the 60 wont.
 
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May 7, 2012
1,338
Hunter e33 Maple Bay, BC
If you already have iNavX or another compatible navigation app then vYacht makes a wifi router to interface to your Seatalk instruments. I used the 1st generation box. Nothing fancy and half the price but it did what was advertised.

VYacht
 
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Oct 26, 2008
6,045
Catalina 320 Barnegat, NJ
Yes, just mount a multifunction display inside and plug it into the backbone as the others said. Very easy.
 
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Ward H

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Nov 7, 2011
3,645
Catalina 30 Mk II Barnegat, NJ
Cheapest is probably the WiFi router for around $200, then i70 display around $400 and then finally an Axiom Chart plotter which has WiFi built in. $750.
It was fun last October sitting in my boat with an old iPad mirroring my Axiom screen which had current, max and avg wind speeds displayed on it. A storm blew through and I was cheering on the max winds. Top wind speed was 48.8 knots.

While definitely not the cheapest way to go I also like mirroring the Axiom CP on an iPad sitting just inside the cabin when sailing. I can sit in front of the helm and still monitor chart data when needed.
 

capta

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Jun 4, 2009
4,766
Pearson 530 Admiralty Bay, Bequia SVG
I use the Lacross technology wireless household stuff for info at the chart table. About us$100.00 and lasts 3 to 4 years.
I have the expensive set up at the helm, but I'm not spending that kind of money on something that is just for fun below.
 
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BarryL

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May 21, 2004
1,000
Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409 Mt. Sinai, NY
Hey,

What plotter do you have? Most modern plotters from Raymarine, Garmin, B&G, etc. come with built in WIFI. You can mirror the display on an apple or Android device.

Barry
 
Feb 26, 2004
22,760
Catalina 34 224 Maple Bay, BC, Canada
I was thinking I would love to have the wind and tridata in the cabin for situational awareness, is there and easy way to do this? Not sure I want to sink a ton into this either
John, have you considered just sticking your head out the hatch? :banghead::beer:

If the boat's rockin', then by then it doesn't matter who comes knockin'. :pimp:
 

JRT

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Feb 14, 2017
2,037
Catalina 310 211 Lake Guntersville, AL
Interesting on the router and MFD options. I thought I would need 2 a wind and a tridata, didn't know about a MFD. Now finding a MFD used ST60 on ebay seems a bit pricey.

I don't have a plotter, I did add a used $50 2 year old 8" Galaxy Tablet with a mount that works great for our lake sailing area. So no interface there. @Ward H that is an awesome setup and if my old stuff died I'd get a upgrade for sure. But for our lake day sails I'm happy with the tech that is still working well enough, and my cheap tablet.
 
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HMT2

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Mar 20, 2014
899
Hunter 31 828 Shoreacres, TX
I’m not sure if your instruments are using the old Seatalk format or Seatalk(ng) I had an old Garmin mfd that did not provide a wireless connection. Through a kickstarter campaign with Digital Yachts I bought an Ikommunicate, connected to an old home WiFi router. The router puts out the “signal K” format that interprets NMEA 2000 and 0183 data and then a number of cheap or free apps access the signalK information and display the NMEA data in your apps. Here is a link to a unit, plus you can go to Digital Yacht to read more about it. It sounds more complicated than it really is, if a dolt like me can set this up anyone with reasonable DYI skills can.

 
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DougM

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Jul 24, 2005
2,242
Beneteau 323 Manistee, MI
Simple enough I would think. I had the original ST40 tridata that came with the boat. I replaced it with ST60 tridata, wind, and autopilot in the cockpit and installed the ST40 at the nav station simply daisy chaining it to the other instruments on Seatalk1. I would think that it would be just as easy to add a ST60 wind head.
I still have the ST60 instruments in the cockpit and they are talking through a Seatalk1 to Seatalk ng bridge to a newer Raymarine multifunction display. I couldn’t tell you that it transmitted all of the ST60 data to the MFD but it was transmitting all that I was interested in seeing.