Enhancing Boating Education with Simulated Radar and Chart Plotter As boating technology continues to evolve, the U.S. Power Squadrons (America’s Boating Club) remains at the forefront of boating education—equipping both members and the public with the knowledge and confidence to operate their vessel safely in all conditions. One powerful teaching aid that supports this mission…
Here we outline a quick fix for throttle calibration issues some have experienced. There have been a couple of situations in which the throttles do not operate as expected. Typically, this is when one throttle will not operate properly and when looking at it in the Joystick setup page in Virtual Sailor, the throttle will…
A quick note – We’ve put together a guide for configuring the throttles and wheel if they lose their set-up. It should help with making quick configuration changes if you run into issues with those devices. The steps are outlined in a manner that should make it easy to carry out when needed. You can…
As has been mentioned in the past, finding areas with docks is a hit-or-miss exercise. They seem to exist at unlikely locations, not necessarily where one would expect, and not consistently with locations on charts. This makes it somewhat difficult to teach local knowledge-type activities except at a high level, which is to be expected…
I’ll start out by wishing everyone a happy New Year, may 2025 be a year of good fortune for all! We’ve had a few requests from people about what we would recommend as an initial set of boats and scenarios, also called situations on the splash screen. We put together a couple of downloads that…
Not too long ago we did a Zoom session for the members of the MuVIT community within USPS District 22. It runs for close to an hour, is very informal, and covers a lot of subjects that people have questions about. It is mostly unedited except for some extraneous bits at the beginning and end….
Can a vessel’s performance characteristics be altered? And what are the reasons for wanting to do so? The affirmative answer to this question exists for multiple reasons. Now, let’s explore the purpose and methods behind such modifications. One potential reason for adjusting the performance curve of the vessel is evident. Certain vessels have excessive power,…
We want to take a few minutes and lay out the roadmap of what we are working on. Most of these are things people asked about and some are there for added functionality. So, with that said, let’s get to it. Screen Displays The topic of utilizing multiple screens has been mentioned frequently. I am…
We’ve run into a situation a couple of times now where the display for the MuVIT remote on the tablet displayed locked and was not usable. This was confusing the first couple of times since everything had been working perfectly up to that point. A lot of fiddling with the remotes to get it to…
Stop the Throttle Shuffle: Using Non-Skid Materials Keep Things in Place I think we can all admit that the 3D-printed throttle quadrants for the MuVIT virtual trainer are quite light. We have had a couple conversations with users who observed that while using the throttles they tended to slide around. This isn’t too surprising when…
We’ve put a video on YouTube that lays out the basics you need to know to do your initial setup and startup with your new MuVIT simulator. Nothing is overly complicated but it is laid out to give you an easier faster start. Probably one of the biggest hurdles is configuring the throttles and wheel….
For this tutorial blog about joystick configuration, we will presume that you have all the essential parts of a MuVIT system ready to go. It could be useful to print the second half of this tutorial as there are cases where Virtual Sailor loses its configurarion and you need to reenter it. With this tutorial…
We have found a version of the 1210TR training chart AKA Marthas Vineyard To Block Island which works with MuVIT. We are evaluating it to see how accurate it is, and it seems to be pretty good so far. Indeed, it appears you could do cruise planning with it at this point. It probably won’t…
One common question we get is are there more than one boat, when we explain that there are many available the next question is what are they and do they come with the package? I show them the gallery of MuVIT boats and there you go, but that requires you to be there so I’ll…
To get the maximum benefit and capabilities from MuVIT you need to configure it to make use of what we will call the MuVIT network. This network allows the tablet to function to help control the simulator, the interface with OpenCPN and provides the potential for multiple users to join into a simulation and interact…
