Scott Gordy works for Offshore Marine in North Carolina. The company is the primary electronics installer for many custom-boat brands, including Jarrett Bay. On the boat manufacturer’s new 64-foot Builder’s Choice, Gordy and his team installed a long list of electronics components for the boat’s custom suite.
“On sport-fishers like Jarrett Bay’s Builder’s Choice, we used Garmin GPSMap 8600 series glass helm displays, a GSD 26 chirp sounder and open array radar, and we networked Garmin’s Meteor 300 audio into that,” he said.
The boat’s captain wanted to keep a Northstar 952X chart plotter from his previous boat and install a Simrad AP28 autopilot he was intimately familiar with. Gordy also was tasked to bring high-definition TV, Blu-ray, shore-based Wi-Fi and satellite Wi-Fi access to the vessel. To do so, he added a Denon AVR-X4100W receiver, Apple TV and a Sony BDP-s1500 Blu-ray player. He also installed a Vizio smart TV and a Samsung 6350 48-inch TV for satellite and streaming TV.
Below is the full electronics component list installed on Builder’s Choice:
- Navigation package
- Garmin 8215 displays (2)
- Garmin GMR 1226 radar
- Garmin GSD 26 chirp sounder
- Garmin 19X GPS antennas (2)
- Garmin AIS 600
- Garmin GXM 52 weather
- Garmin Wi-Fi
- Garmin Meteor 300 stereo with MS-NRX200i remote
- JL Audio M400/4 amp
- JL Audio 650 speakers (6)
- FLIR M-Series camera
- Simrad AP28 autopilot
- Simrad Taiyo TD-L1550A direction finder
- Northstar 952X
- Icom M506 VHFs (2)
- SiTex SST-110 sea water temp gauge
- Salon
- Denon AVR-X4100W receiver
- Sony BDP-S1500 Blu-ray
- Apple TV
- Wave WiFi Rogue Wave Pro
- Netgear router
- Samsung 48″ 6350 TV
- Motivated Designs TV lift
- Vizio 28″ TV
- Harmony Ultimate Home remote
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