Raymarine’s latest advancements
Whether in the engine room, at the helm, or for interior comforts, boatbuilders and manufacturers continue to adapt the latest advances in technology to improve onboard systems and provide the best boating experience for their clientele. Knowing about the new stuff is part of what keeps us interested in boating.
For the Raymarine group, innovations and partner collaborations continue to develop new systems and updates to chartplotters, radar, assisted docking, nautical charts, marine cameras, and more. One of the latest announced at the 2025 Miami International Boat Show is FLIR’s Ocean Scout Pro, a next generation marine thermal monocular.
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The thermal device can identify nighttime targets up to 500 meters away, and its compact design makes it easy to hold with one hand. Designed around an advanced 640 x 480 resolution thermal detector, the Ocean Scout Pro puts more pixels on the target for accurate temperature readings and a clearer image.
With a 32-degree field of view lens, the streamlined user interface ensures live-image visibility and continuous focus on observed targets, persons, or scenes without obstruction and the confusion of menus and settings. It features a one-touch button to control zoom, mode, brightness, and standby, and the accompanying wireless app for gallery, image, and video management that allows for simple wireless file transfer.
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The Ocean Scout Pro can withstand a two-meter drop and has an IP67 rating. In addition, the battery will last for six hours of use on a single charge and includes USB Type-C connector and powerbank charging options.
The monocular offers four video color palettes for optimal viewing in changing conditions. White hot palette displays warmer objects in white and cooler objects in black. The opposite Black hot palette offers a more lifelike image with hotter objects like buoys and human body heat shown in black. The Sepia palette applies a warm, golden hue for reduced eye and mental fatigue during long viewing periods. The Heat palette is used for quickly detecting body heat. Highlighting the warmest 10 percent of a scene in a mix of vibrant oranges and yellows, the heat palette is best suited for locating people and pets in the water.
Raymarine recently announced that it has incorporated new technology to add compatibility with Seakeeper’s marine gyrostabilization systems. This new connection opens the door to an array of practical benefits for boaters and can be a new install or a retrofit.
Raymarine’s Yachtsense gateway is the first to provide the ability to remotely activate an onboard Seakeeper gyro using the Raymarine app. This allows for the Seakeeper to spool up before boaters board their vessel. This is a new, growing technology and is currently available exclusively for boats factory-equipped with Raymarine’s Yachtsense digital-switching solution.
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The latest update for the Raymarine Axiom chartplotter family is the Lighthouse 4.9 software that includes new features and enhancements, such as on-screen controls for Anchor Mode. The system records the vessel’s GPS position as soon as the anchor hits the bottom. It then automatically calculates the vessel’s swing and drag circles and sends an alert if dragging. New on-screen controls allow the user to fine-tune values for anchor depth and length of chain as well as adjusting the recorded anchor position.
Lighthouse 4.9 has added audio manufacturer-specific icons for the homescreen, like Fusion and JL Audio. Axiom chartplotters also now offer expanded sets of icons to differentiate between connected network video sources, such as one for the engine room, for the port-side camera, etc. The system also includes updated versions of popular apps, such as Netflix, PredictWind, Windy, and NV Charts.
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When it comes to watermaker monitoring and operation, Raymarine multifunction displays (MFDs) with the Lighthouse user interface utilizing the Boening Chartplotter Gateway can control Blue Water Desalination’s Legend series of fully automatic watermakers. The use of MFDs eliminates the need for a separate wired remote to the watermaker, reducing installation costs as well as saving precious real estate on the helm console. The feature will be available on all Legend units produced in 2025 and moving forward.
“Moving forward” is the key phrase, and Raymarine continues to do so with every effort to make its products better and create a safe and enjoyable boating experience. raymarine.com
-by Dylan Peters
