72′ ACY

IMS American put the "art" in "state-of-the-art" when they outfitted the new ACY72 YELLOWBIRD for owners Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz. Form follows function throughout the vessel with the latest in integrated electronics and entertainment blended unassumingly into the contemporary décor. In the salon, a 53-inch Pioneer Elite plasma TV is stowed within a port-side cabinet. A press of a button on the Pronto hand-held remote control, and the screen rises quietly out of the cabinet via an electronic lift by Motivated Design. A 32-inch Sharp LCD TV in the master stateroom serves as a functional, yet artistic accent piece.

The YELLOWBIRD's expansive bridge console houses the latest in marine electronics with three 18-inch Seabook flat screen monitors, a Northstar 6000I GPS, and a Furuno 2127 black box control panel.

65′ ACY

IMS American teamed up with ACY's carpenters to performed a major refit on the ACY 65 BANDIT prior to the vessels departure to Dubai. The job required major structural modifications to the salon to allow a Sharp 40-inch flat panel LCD TV to pop up from behind the sofa, courtesy of a Motivated Design lift. (The original tube TV was removed from its cabinet and a second pantry was fabricated in its place.) Additional salon components include a Yamaha receiver, a Sony Blu-ray Disc DVD player, a Panasonic VCR player and a Clarion 12-volt radio/receiver wired to the cockpit stereo. Staterooms were outfitted with a new LCD TV. A KVH TracVision satellite TV system was installed and programmed to receive signals from the Arabsat satellite network.

The BANDIT received an extensive electronics package including a Furuno navigation array with a NavNet radar, echo sounder, back-up sounder, chart plotter/GPS combo and dual 15″ LCD monitors. Additional components include a Simrad autopilot system, Icom VHF radio, a night vision camera and an ACR spotlight. IMS also installed a Clarion outdoor stereo system with a watertight CD/tuner, six disc changer and iPod interface, along with a four-channel marine power amp and coaxial speakers by JL Audio.

42′ ACY

ACY's new 42′ walkaround INDEPENDENCE was outfitted with a Furuno NAVnet 3D system, 12 kW radar and an AIS black box receiver. IMS American also equipped the vessel with a Furuno WeatherStation, a Raymarine Sirius weather module, and a Simrad AP28 auto pilot featuring an LCD display with intuitive interface. The all-weather marine stereo system features components by Clarion and JL Audio. A thermal-imaging camera from FLIR completes the package.

50′ Alex Willis

IMS North Carolina installed an extensive electronics package aboard this 50′ Alex Willis, superbly refitted by owner Harry Smith. The package includes 15″ and 12″ Raymarine G-Series high-definition marine displays and black box processors with chartplotter, 12 kW super HD digital radar, 2 kW digital sounder, Sirius Marine Weather and satellite radio. The Sirius radio is connected to a new Fusion Marine iPod stereo with bridge and cockpit speakers. A Simrad AP24 Autopilot is installed in the main console steering the boat in auto mode or navigating from either the Raymarine or Garmin GPS plotter. The overhead control box houses two Icom IC-M604 VHF radios, a Furuno RD-30 digital depth and temperature display and a Garmin GPSMAP 4208 chartplotter with XM WX Satellite Weather. (The Garmin chartplotter and satellite weather are also displayed on the salon TV.) An ACR RCL-100D searchlight was installed on the forward hard top with controls in the main console. The boat is outfitted with a KVH TracPhone 252 satellite phone system with a handset on the fly bridge and cordless phone in the salon, along with a KVH TracVision M5 satellite TV system with two HD receivers in the salon and master suite. Satellite TV can also be viewed on the 12″ Raymarine G-Series HD Display on the fly bridge. The tower station has an Icom VHF command mic to communicate with the bridge and other vessels. The engine room is equipped with three Raymarine CAM100 video cameras displayed on a Raymarine G-Series HD fly bridge monitor. IMS affiliate Bausch-American Towers outfitted the boat with a full BAT tuna tower and custom molded hard top with an angled overhead electronics box and tri-color dome lights.

67′ Bertram

This new Bertram 67 was equipped with the latest in Furuno components including black box radar and sounder units, a digital depth system and a 15” sunlight readable display. Additional components include: a Simrad autopilot; a Northstar 972 GPS WAAS plotting system; Icom VHF radios; a KVH Trackvision TV-at-sea and Trackphone; a Panasonic phone system; and an Ocean Systems Deck Scan camera system.