A sunset pic for Valentines day from a member of our global field service team! Romantic? Perhaps not, but it's still a great view from high up on this cruise ship in Hong Kong harbour. ...
News and Views
Another Successful Trip
That feeling when you get off the ship and you've fixed the VSAT! — in Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Indonesia. ...
VSAT Technician R&R in Mexico
What does a ship comms technician do in their spare time? Go and look at ship comms technology obviously. Mark took this excellent 360 on USS Midway after his visit to a yacht in Mexico last week. ...
A Stormy Tender Ride Ashore
This was stormy the scene over the back of the tender for our technician as he went ashore from a yacht anchored off Ao Po Grand Marina, Phuket, Thailand this week. The visit to complete a PM on dual TVRO and dual VSAT systems. ...
Beau Geste Finishes Sydney Hobart
Congratulations to our customer Beau Geste and all the team, for their 5th place finish yesterday in the Sydney Hobart! https://www.facebook.com/BeauGesteRacing/ ...
Happy Christmas!
To all our friends, thank you for your support this year and from everyone at Acutec, we hope you have a very Happy Christmas!!! ...
Phuket Yacht Show
Welcome to the opening ceremony of the Thailand Yacht Show attended by the Deputy Prime Minister. — at AO PO GRAND MARINA ...
Get it here! Reliable Communications at Sea.
From the helicopter window today, our communications engineer will see the Southern Hemisphere’s most powerful radio transmitter, on his flight offshore, supporting the oilfields off North West Cape. The Harold E Holt station operates in the Very Low Frequency (VLF) band, bouncing its signals between ocean and ionosphere to reach vessels 10,000 Km or more away. VLF ship antenn ...
Future Frigate Industry Briefing
It's great to be attending the Future Frigate Industry Briefing in Sydney today. A number of government initiatives aim to maximise Australian industry involvement in this exciting program to replace the Anzac class frigates. ...
“A” Compromise
Everyone who makes things for a living understands compromise. Building a super yacht is no different. You might have the biggest budget for the best boat ever, but a yacht is an engineering project and engineers know how to compromise.Today I was looking at this photo of the new junk-inspired sailing yacht A on its first sailing sea trial near Kiel. As a self-confessed sat-com ...