Sailing Reverie - B&G Vulcan 12 Chartplotter - Unboxing, Installation & Software Update.

You know how sometimes on a sailboat restoration the simplest tasks can turn into a long drawn effort. Well.... this is one of those time. During the Defender.com 12 Days of Christmas I purchased a new B&G Vulcan 12 Chartplotter. I was torn between the B&G Zeus 3 12 inch unit, but it was over $1000+ more than the B&G Vulcan 12. So we took advantage of the sale and bought the Vulcan. Now in my naive mind, I thought, no problem, easy installation, unbox unit, cut a hole on the cockpit, run some wires, connect everything and viola!. Well... things didn't quite work that way as the amount of space to run wires on the port side of the sailboat, is significantly larger than on the starboard side. So after much tearing down of all my beautiful Victron solar components and facia boards I had to get creative on a solution. After the installation was completed, we had to take things down again to do the software updates, so several good lessons learned here. Hope you enjoy! Here is the timeline: 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Unboxing of the B&G Vulcan 12 Chartplotter 04:41 Setup for wiring, testing and basic configuration 07:51 The hole 09:15 The port side is not the same as the starboard side & wiring challenges 12:05 Final product ..... or so we thought 12:45 The software update journey 13:31 Where does the SD Card goes. Vulcan vs Zeus 14:22 Dismounting Vulcan 14:38 Installing Memory Card with Software Update FIles 15:58 Re-installing Vulcan 17:01 Software Upgrade Journey Begins (connecting to internet) 19:10 B&G Vulcan 12 Software Upgrade 20:59 Using Mirror & Control Function with iPad 22:25 Upgrading other B&G Devices through the B&G Vulcan 25:38 Upgrading the B&G Triton2 - What does it take. 26:16 Other setups on the Vulcan (boat, fuel, gps offset, others) 29:28 B&G Vulcan File System 29:45 Backing up Settings on B&G Vulcan 30:29 Wrap-Up