{"id":61651,"date":"2025-12-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=61651"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:37:14","slug":"digital-yacht-bilge-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/gear\/digital-yacht-bilge-iq\/","title":{"rendered":"An Innovation in Bilge Monitoring: What Boaters Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BilgeIQ_ZDIGBILGEIQ_0-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image disable-lazyload\" alt=\"Bilge iQ\u2019s interface\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BilgeIQ_ZDIGBILGEIQ_0-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BilgeIQ_ZDIGBILGEIQ_0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BilgeIQ_ZDIGBILGEIQ_0-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BilgeIQ_ZDIGBILGEIQ_0.jpg 1483w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Bilge iQ\u2019s interface tracks pump activity and alerts owners in real time.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Courtesy Wave International<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<iframe id=\"gkstfcayky\" src=\"https:\/\/cruisingworld.dragonforms.com\/gkstfcayky\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:165px;border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>When a harbor master called Nick Heyes to tell him his boat was sinking, the news came with a troubling twist. A persistent leak in the shaft seal had slowly filled the bilge with contaminated water. The pump eventually overloaded and failed, leaving the boat at risk and sending polluted discharge overboard without anyone knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat got me thinking,\u201d said Heyes, managing director of Digital Yacht. \u201cOur company creates connected solutions for boaters, and yet my own boat nearly sank and was discharging polluted bilge water simply because I didn\u2019t know the bilge pump had failed. There had to be a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That incident kicked off the development of Bilge iQ, a new intelligent bilge monitoring and environmental protection system that has since earned major industry awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Oily-waste-captured-in-filter-Yacht-YEVA-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Oily waste captured in filter\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Oily-waste-captured-in-filter-Yacht-YEVA-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Oily-waste-captured-in-filter-Yacht-YEVA-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Oily-waste-captured-in-filter-Yacht-YEVA-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Oily-waste-captured-in-filter-Yacht-YEVA.jpg 1500w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">The Wavestream filter traps oily contaminants before they reach the water.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Courtesy Wave International<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>Bilge iQ connects to any bilge pump through NMEA 2000 and displays pump status on a vessel\u2019s multifunction display. Owners can control the pump from the MFD or use standard NMEA switching commands. A built-in wireless interface allows monitoring from a phone or tablet, giving boaters access to pump activity, current draw, cycle logs, and alarms for dry-run events, long run times, or pump failures. Bilge iQ also integrates with Victron Cerbo systems to enable remote oversight through the free VRM cloud platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe developed a solution that allows boat owners to monitor and control the bilge pump,\u201d Heyes said. \u201cA sinking boat obviously poses major environmental risks, but on a day to day basis unmonitored bilge discharge is a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address that broader concern, Digital Yacht partnered with Wave International, maker of Lloyd\u2019s Register-approved Wavestream bilge filters. Wavestream units remove hydrocarbons and other contaminants down to 5 ppm, a level often required in marine protection zones and inland waterways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wavestream-filters-all-spaces-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Wavestream filters\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wavestream-filters-all-spaces-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wavestream-filters-all-spaces-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wavestream-filters-all-spaces-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wavestream-filters-all-spaces-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wavestream-filters-all-spaces.jpg 2000w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Wavestream units come in multiple sizes to protect bilges throughout the boat.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Courtesy Wave International<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>\u201cDigital Yacht contacted us about integrating the Wavestream filter into the Bilge iQ to create a comprehensive solution which would not only protect owners\u2019 boats but also protect the environment,\u201d said Paul Gullett, managing director of Wave International. \u201cIt ensures only clean water is pumped overboard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined system launched in September and was named Best New Product by the NMEA. In November, Bilge iQ earned the DAME Design Award for Environmental Design as well as a special mention for On Board Safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For boatowners, the solution offers something long overdue: a smarter way to keep water out of the boat and pollution out of the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Yacht\u2019s new Bilge iQ turns bilge monitoring into real-time protection for boats and the marine environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":61652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Cruising World News Desk","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","sponsored_image":false,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true,"ad_targeting":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"alternate_title_newsletter":"","alternate_content_newsletter":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[157,319,2019,362],"class_list":["post-61651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear","tag-gear","tag-maintenance","tag-onboard-systems","tag-safety"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}