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I've just replaced my boat with a bigger one, more suitable for the sea conditions where I live. Its not a new boat, its a 2007 model and as such, the onboard electronics are a little dated. The chartplotter is only a small screen, not very detailed and not touch screen. Now I could have spent over a grand on a new chartplotter, but I saw a company advertising a rugged android tablet specifically aimed at boaters for £700. This promised all the benefits of a touch screen chartplotter, but with the additional benefits you get from an android tablet - ie surfing the web, watching Netflix, checking emails etc. I thought that was a great idea, so looked on Amazon to see what was available. I quickly found the Oukitel RT2 - "The Worlds Most Powerful Rugged Tablet" as they proudly display on their website!

The tablet is fully waterproof. Not splashproof or rainproof, but waterproof. It can be submerged to 1.5m and still work. So outside on the helm station of your racing yacht isn't going to phase it at all! In my case, it's mounted inside the cabin, but boats are still damp environments and I might operate it with cold wet hands and the tablet performs flawlessly. I tried it in various positions, but in the end I got a rail mount and fastened it to a grab rail. I was recently out in very rough weather and it was really easy to read in the rough conditions. The screen is very clear and easy to read, even in direct sunlight. For boating, there's lots of software available. There's charplotter sfotware from Navionics to C-Map, to Savvy Navvy. There's AIS software for viewing the location of other boats. There's weather and tide software. All in all, there is far more free and low cost software available for Android than available for a professional chartplotter. I might have had to buy this and then spend £35 a year on chartplotter software, but that is better than spending over £1000 to buy the unit and then £200 a year on chart updates for less features! You can't watch Netflix or Amazon Prime or read your email or browse the web on your in-built chartplotter! So I can see this makes complete sense. There are plenty of online reviews showing how a tablet can be a better option to a chartplotter, but even if you have a chartplotter, it can be a valuable accessory to have a reliable waterproof tablet. In an emergency, if you lose power, you would still have this as a backup device.

As for the battery, it's huge. 20,000mah. That's 20amps! It will last for 900 hours on standby. That's over a month. You can watch 15 hours of non-stop video on full brightness and full volume before you run low and it will also act as a power bank and charge other devices that you plug in to it. It really is a workhorse of a gadget and the sort of thing that is indispensable when you have one. Take it camping for a week and power your phone. Take it hiking instead of maps. If you can think of a use, it can probably do it and it has a whole host of inbuilt tools like GPS, compass, spirit level, decibel meter. Which has just given me an idea for another use: in my day job, I inspect construction sites. I often take my laptop, but this tablet would be ideal (if it wasn't in my boat!).

So some specs for you in no particular order:
-Android 12
-Mediatek MT8788 Octa-core processor with 4 Cortex A73 cores and 4 Cortex A53 cores
-8GB memory
-128GB storage (expandable to 1TB via micro SD card)
-Dual sim
-20amp battery
-1200x1920 FHD display at 350 nits of brightness (excellent display angle)
-16mp Sony front and rear AI image stabalised cameras
-2.4GHz and 5GHz dual band Wi-Fi and 4G connectivity.
-Dual stereo speakers
-GPS via both Glonass and Galileo

I love it. I'm so glad I got it. It a great tool for a purpose in the boat, but its a great gadget for down-time too and probably the most useful bit of tech I've bought!

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