Starting next week they set sail from northern Germany for a four week trip from Schleswig into the east Baltic and Poland – and then next Spring their avowed aim is to head for southern Spain. Her crew consists of co-owners Stefanie and Heike. Taku Moe is a Bavaria 390 Lagoon and has gone through an extensive refit in recent times.

One such project (which takes everything to another level) is Stefanie’s sailing vessel Taku Moe, with its fabulous onboard integrated systems display and management. Since publishing that blog, Signal K due to the passage of time has evolved even further and created a great deal of interest in the marine world in its own right – plus as a further consequence of my blog – this has led others to integrate Signal K with Victron Energy products. If you are not familiar with Signal K and the plethora of information that can be integrated from onboard boat systems, then this blog I published a year ago will serve as a primer – Signal K: Embracing connectivity with Victron Energy. Various examples can be found with a search on ‘Rasperberry Pi’ here on the Victron blog. As many of you will know Venus can also be used with Open Source projects too.

Venus is the software operating system used by the Victron GX product range. Pictured above is a screenshot from WilhelmSK (a popular Signal K app) showing just some of the information that can be displayed onboard your boat, when using Signal K and Victron Energy products together with Victron’s Venus OS.

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