Raymarine’s new G-Series Navigation system made it’s North American debut recently at the 2007 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, and onboard a new Ocean Yachts 65′ Odyssey.

Rigged specifically to showcase the stunning power and performance of G-Series and Raymarine’s exclusive Super High Definition Digital Radar, this Ocean 65 is setup as a 4 display system utilizing a pair of G170 Marine Displays inboard as well as a pair of G120 marine displays mounted outboard. The G-Series marine displays are perfectly suited for this Ocean 65 footer’s bright pilothouse environment, and would be equally suitable for installation outdoors in a full-sunlight environment too.

Both G170’s and one of the G120 displays are linked to 3 separate GPM400 G-Series Processor Modules. This arrangement allows the captain the flexibility to put any combination of chartplotter, fishfinder, HD Digital Radar, video monitoring, satellite weather and more across the three displays designated for navigation. The fourth display, a G120 mounted to port is connected to the boat’s DirecTV system powered by Raymarine’s 60STV-HD Satellite Television antenna system. In addition to the pilothouse, satellite TV from the 60STV system is output to a big screen HDTV in the salon, and to additional HDTV’s in each stateroom.

Total control of the G-Series navigation system comes from 2 flush-mounted G-Series command center keyboards. Either keyboard offers full control of all four G-Series monitors and GPM400 processor modules. The system is also linked to a Raymarine S2G hydraulic autopilot system with an ST8002 autopilot controller and SmartController Wireless autopilot controller.

The boat is also equipped with 4 Raymarine CAM100 day and night marine cameras covering the aft deck and salon as well as the port and starboard main engines. These cameras are connected into a GVM400 G-Series Video Module, which converts the cameras composite video signals to SeaTalkhs streaming ethernet. This give the captain the ability to call up any or all of the cameras simultaneously on any of the 3 primary G-Series monitors. The engine room mounted CAM100’s are of particular value in the system thanks to their integrated IR illuminators and night mode, enabling excellent remote monitoring of the engine spaces in full darkness.

Bridge-to-bridge communications are handled by dual Ray218 VHF radios mounted port and starboard. The starboard radio is fitted with a forward facing loudhailer for external communications and automated fog signals. Both radios feature GPS connectivity with Class D Digital Select Calling (DSC) enabled. As well this boat is fitted with Raymarine’s AIS250 Automatic Identification System receiver, which automatically detects the AIS transmitter signals from surrounding commercial shipping and large yachts, and plots them automatically on the GPS-chartplotter and radar displays.