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Raymarine’s new software update delivers "best yet" sea surface temp overlay
The latest free upgrade to Raymarine’s award-winning LightHouse II software includes a huge bonus for fishers, especially game fishers.
The Version 17 update includes a detailed, easy-to-use, sea surface temperature overlay, which precisely plots vessels on the temperature maps, for use with existing navigation and fish-finding displays.
Updated daily from high resolution satellites, Raymarine’s SST is rendered in incredible detail with impressive super-sharp animated graphics. It includes a 6-day forecast, along with forecasts for wave periods, directions and height; wind direction and speed; and much more. The data is available on subscription at $21 per month or $139 annually.
The updates, which are sourced from eight satellite passes per day (at 1km resolution!), arrive in a condensed, high tech GRIB file, which is updated every 24 hours. The GRIB files are small enough to be accessed via Wi-Fi, cellphone or the Iridium network, yet capable of relaying vast amounts of detailed information. Once received, the SST overlays can be displayed on any Raymarine MFD running V17 LightHouse II software and on any linked tablet, smartphone or satellite phone.
“Being able to identify where sea surface temperatures change makes a huge difference when chasing gamefish such as marlin and tuna,” says Mark Milburn, CEO of New Zealand Rayrmarine distributor Lusty and Blundell Ltd. “Bait fish tend to travel in the convergence zones, where the temperature changes, and therefore so do the gamefish.
“In late summer and autumn, our prime gamefishing seasons, marlin, tuna, mahimahi and the like are usually found in the warmest currents. Raymarine’s SST overlay allows those areas to be immediately identified: enabling fishers to set a course straight for the ‘hot zones’, rather than having to spend valuable fishing time searching for them.”
LightHouse II Version 17, including Raymarine’s sophisticated new sea surface temperature application, is now available to download free at raymarine.com.