A Bux Boater - Boats, sun and the Mediterranean

As is normal around this time of year, before the season gets going in earnest, certain boats that could not be attended to previously at the end of the previous summer are in the yard for service, repairs, refits and only too commonly dealing with pesky alarms that will require diagnostic time and fiddling about to resolve, or quite possibly false alarms due to failed sensors, faulty calibrations or various other parameters. The number of messages received to the service department because of strange errors on screens or alarms with no meaning is huge. O n most days these sorts of things would drive me crazy, leading to rants about useless sensors, over complications and we don´t need no stinking technology, however, I have been thinking about why there are so many sensors, alarms and warnings on boats, especially new ones. Some possible reasons I have come up with are; Protection from ourselves , this might sound odd, but when it comes to modern engines especially, there is such a my...