The Instrumentation
aboard Sapien is as computer interfaced as we can make it at this point.

Our GPS is the Garman GPS-128 and works very nicely with the Navtech software. Our depth sounder is a Signet- SmartPak and even though it has neat features, we use it primarily as a real time depth sounder.

Both of our steerage stations are equipped with Ritchie Compasses, accurate to a "T".

In the fall of 2005 we installed a JRC 1500 Radar. Yeah its a great unit but since we left the fog on the Left Coast of the US we haven't had much of a chance to use it. It uses too much power to have it on all the time on long Ocean voyages although I did turn it on every time I ran the engine on the way over to Hawaii, just for fun.

That brings us to our third and most accurate crew member, our Monitor Windvane Stearing system...