One of the most significant recent advances in sonar has been the introduction and widespread adoption of chirp technology. It’s an acronym for “compressed high intensity radar pulse,” and it’s not so ...

Digital is in; analog is out. Everything on your next battlewagon will most likely function in binary code. The advantages of your NMEA 2000 backbone are only beginning to be discovered, but you don’t ...

A boat has been described as a hole in the water into which you throw money and the word itself has been said to stand for Break Out Another Thousand. Although said tongue in cheek; a lot of the time, ...

The 12-inch multi-touch widescreen GPSMAP 7612xsv chartplotter/sonar combo includes preloaded BlueChart g2, built-in dual CHIRP sonar plus DownVü and SideVü scanning sonar, and 10 Hz internal GPS.

To detect the size, shape and location of potential prey, bats send out quips of ultrasonic waves and then listen for the echoes to make precise range measurements. Now a small start-up called Chirp ...