Anyone got Thermal Imaging aboard?

[SR4]

I have just bought a Flir Thermal Imaging System for safety reasons on my RIB, anyone else use them?

[Tim M]

Unless operating in a search and rescue capacity I can't see the point!

[SR4]

What if you lose a passenger at night, or you are in thick fog, or going up a dark channel? It will pick up lobster pots in the dark as well as guide you into a bay and show up rocks and any other obstacles sticking out of the water. You really need to use one to see the benefits, it's really great stuff

[ashbypower]

Thermal Imaging or Infrared ?? if Thermal how do you cool it ??

[willk]

This Redbay 8.4 Stormforce on Gigha has it fitted.

[SR4]

Thermal imaging, I don't cool it, I turn it on and look at the screen and when finished turn it off I can have it in all sorts of modes and colouring, I can also press a button and it takes a picture onto an SD card, I will take some pictures at the weekend and post them, good to look for hot spots on your engine or leaks in the hull as they will show up as well

Surely I can't be the only Searider 4m with thermal imaging! http://www.flircameras.co.uk/?gclid=...FccLfAodW1DKtQ

I paid £2k for mine (i5) but I have just looked and they are down to just under £1,600 so a bargain really http://www.pat-services.co.uk/flir-i...FQwjfAodxi1uxQ

[wavelength]

Surely I can't be the only Searider 4m with thermal imaging

oh I think you can

[SR4]

This is the difference with and without, totally amazing

Flir system Demo 2012 Miami Boat Show - YouTube

[Nick Hearne]

Sr4 you are starting to sound like codders with some of your off the wall posts!

[Into The Blue]

The FLIR kit is quite amazing, if I did any night boating I'd have to get one. Shame about the price but I know they are working really hard to get the price down. I did work for Raymarine and saw some of the development roadmap had had chance to play with some of the top end kit.
As to having on on a small rib, why not if you can justify it. Remember to take it to a social gathering at some point and see just what else they can reveal.

[jncunliffe]

I'm saving up my pocket money to get one of these.... http://www.flir.com/cvs/americas/en/...view/?id=50774

[SPR]

I think 2k spend on bigger boat- might help to prevent MOB and Training ....

S.

[Roger Barr]

Great Piece of kit and undoubtably a bonus but for that kind of money I'd rather slow down and use pilotage / night vision when approaching an anchorage or harbour.

How did Vasco DaGama get on with out one??

[tonto]

I like the look of them and have been trying to get one fitted to my big ship, but the company "she say NO!"

Apparently too expensive to spend 3,000 Bucks on a $220,000,000 ship!

Ah well live in hope..............

[Dhf]

Surely you don't need one of those, with all the other expensive gadgets you must have aboard a vessel of that size and value, although more the merrier I guess, but wouldn't you need two, one for the pointy end and one aft.

[martini]

I've got one, turned it on the other day for the 1st time in about a year. Should tell you something!

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[Erin]

Oh yeah..... who or what had you lost overboard?

[Channel Ribs]

Originally Posted by martini

I've got one, turned it on the other day for the 1st time in about a year. Should tell you something!

Did you use it at all on your night passages?

[whisper]

Originally Posted by SR4

Anyone got Thermal Imaging aboard?

Only when my passengers wear one of these

Global Technacolour Heat Reactive Colour Shifting T-shirts

[Searider]

We've got one at work.

Good for finding hot spots on machinery and switch panels and also water and delamination in sandwich and carbon structures.

We use it for looking at damaged boats to determine the extent of damage. Was a lot more than the one above and has about 10 times the resolution.

Never felt the need to have it in the boat