The eight-man crew taking part in the GORE-TEX Arctic RIB Challenge has been supplied with the world's best selling chartplotter, the Lowrance HDS-10 with fish-finding technology to help navigate the journey and document the fauna and sea-life found along the way – data that will be reported to the Marine Conservation Zone Project.
The team will also be provided with the new Broadband 3GTM Radar system – the unbeatable radar that proved far superior opposite similar technologies in a recent radar group test. Noted as being uniquely suited to small boats, the Broadband 3GTM Radar was the outright winner
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Beginning the six-day voyage in July, the teams aboard two 6 metre Suzuki-powered Humber RIBs will travel from the north of Scotland, via the Shetland Isles, up the west coast of Norway to the Arctic Circle and beyond. The group is hoping to demonstrate how even moderate production-sized RIBs can be capable of extraordinary achievements with the assistance of cutting edge technology.
George Pollard, Managing Director, Navico UK Ltd, said: "The Lowrance HDS-10 incorporates the best navigational and fish-finding technology on the market and is fully compatible with our groundbreaking StructureScanª sonar imaging module which features underwater picture-like viewing. The SonicHubª audio system weÕve provided the team with will also ensure hours of entertainment enabling them to play their iPods or iPhones along the way.
On this trip, the Lowrance equipped team will also be using the new Broadband 3GTM radar, outright winner of the recent head-to-head radar group test, which was noted as being uniquely suited to small boats."
Precision Navigation, of Brantham in Suffolk, was used for the installation and a stainless steel PowerTower from Scanstrut helped mount the radar.
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