Looking INTO THE
FUTURE Boating has benefitted from the fruits of technology like everything else, and there's plenty to keep our eyes on in the years to come.
When I was a kid, one of my favorite board games was Mars 2020 in which players compete to get their space program to the Red Planet first. There’s always been a mystique around the year 2020, and now that I’m writing about boat tech in 2018, I find myself thinking about the state of boating technology of today and in the near future.
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From revolutions in solid state semiconductors for radar, 3-D forward facing sonar, remote vessel monitoring systems, the prospect of 100 percent planetary satellite coverage, all the things one can do with a smart device, and more, boating today can resemble a Mars mission in more ways than one. Here we look at some of the techy treats and trends defining boating in 2018. By