Standing in the cockpit of a $2 million, 63-foot Hatteras boatmoored in Burnham Harbor, T.J. Chung makes a slow sweeping gestureover the eight consoles and screens for monitoring and controllingthe luxury yacht.
It's an impressive display of marine technology, one that isduplicated in a second cockpit on the bridge of the English Roses V,a corporate boat used by Chung's boss, George Buckley, chairman ofBrunswick Corp., the world's largest boat manufacturer. All told, theyacht has $100,000 worth of gear.
The technology provides the skipper with the data he needs to knowwhere his boat is and what other ships and obstacles are nearby onthe water and below his boat. He …
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