Celebrating a 10-Year Milestone

In 2015, Founders Richard Tinley and Hugh Agnew Set Out to Make the World’s Best Yacht Instruments

After a decade of innovation and pushing the boundaries of both quality and customer service within the high-end yacht instrument market, we wanted to highlight the top 10 ways our products stand out from the crowd, whilst looking forward to the next 10+ years of A+T Instruments. 

• 1. Each instrument made is subjected to the toughest testing on the market by submerging in 1m of water for 24 hours and run in the oven at 75°C before shipping. Every product is made at A+T’s works in Hampshire and has a three-year warranty. 

• 2. A+T wind sensors are superior to any other on the market; tougher, more accurate and with a faster response. Ceramic bearings substantially extend the life of the sensor and give the most accurate readings possible. Parts are made from carbon fibre and graphite-infused resin to limit lightning damage. All the components are interchangeable with B&G old and new, meaning A+T can provide spares and upgrades for these. 

• 3. A+T engineers provide 24/7 telephone and email support service for all customers, current and future. The team at A+T are all sailors, not salespeople. You’ll find us taking part in regattas, hanging out on the dock and cruising. We live and breathe the products and there’s no hard sell, just knowledge and passion. Our support technicians really know systems and are daily on TeamViewer supporting yachts worldwide.  

• 4. Our Big Format Displays (BFD) are the largest, brightest and toughest on the market, meaning superior visibility on the mast. They connect to all instrument systems including A+T, Faro, B&G and Raymarine. 

• 5. Processors and displays are designed to work with all systems – past, current and future. For older systems, there’s no need to change the cables, sensors or good displays. This provides both the best, and usually lowest cost, upgrade for existing instrument systems. 

• 6. A+T is the only company in the world making the shut-off valves and the speed and depth sensors that have been fitted to countless large yachts over the last 40 years. These enable sensors to be removed to clean, service and troubleshoot, without water ingress, or the need to take the boat out of the water. 

•  7. Since A+T’s inception in 2015, Ethernet was selected as the way forward for instrument systems on yachts.  We are the only company making a completely Ethernet-based instrument system which is used for many state-of-the-art new builds. Ethernet has a number of advantages including essentially unlimited bandwidth, many third-party diagnostic and support tools, and most importantly means a cut wire, damaged sensor or display does not pull the whole network down as happens with the conventional N2K networks. 

• 8. We make the only production autopilot with a web-served interface letting the user and A+T engineers see what is happening in the pilot.  With a complete range of drive types and power, many large yachts are discovering the comfort and reliability of A+T’s Pilot system. 

• 9. For the biggest and most advanced projects, A+T make an ATPX series of processors that have 100Hz data logging, Modbus interfacing to PLCs and a layer of user configurable NODE-Red software to develop bespoke applications needed on the racetrack or for complex superyacht systems. 

• 10. Our latest innovation is an inertial wind sensor which measures 6 axis accelerations at the masthead for the most advanced mast motion wind compensation. 

Whatever your instrument, whatever your time zone, get in touch with our team of experts today.  

A+T has no connection with any 3^rd party manufacturers mentioned here.