Maracaibo
A 1967 mahogany motor yacht with a modern nervous system.
A clinker-built mahogany motor yacht from 1967 — twin Mercedes diesels, continuously restored to preserve her original appearance — quietly fitted with modern electronics: SignalK and NMEA 2000 instrumentation, and telemetry flowing into InfluxDB and Grafana. Her fuel system spawned two projects of its own: Sightglass and Virtual fuel consumption, below.
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- Boat telemetry stack ships with MQTT
- Weather forecast joins the heater dashboard
- Heater run timeline and smarter run detection
POSTS
- TIL: SignalK tank levels are 0..1 ratios, not liters
What I learned. SignalK's tanks.fuel.{0,1}.currentLevel is a ratio (0..1), not a volume — and.capacity is in m³, so liters = currentLevel ×…
- Starlink adds a monthly kit fee — boat math changes
For a boat the calculation just shifted: the default new-customer path now carries a recurring hardware cost on top of the subscription,…