Olex at Hines Marine —
3D seabed mapping — available, but not our first recommendation.
Olex builds a live 3D model of the seafloor from your own sounder data as you steam and tow, and it only gets better the more you fish. It is a capable tool, but we don't lead with it — for most boats the Furuno DFF3D's own live 3D bottom mapping and TimeZero's PBG charting already cover the ground Olex was built for. We install and support Olex when a captain specifically wants it; it is just no longer a system we recommend by default.
The Olex gear on our boats.
Not a catalogue — this is what actually goes into the packages we build, pulled from the vessels on our fleet page.
HMS Olex System
For captains who specifically want Olex, our build runs alongside the TimeZero bridge, logging depth and position continuously to grow your own private bottom chart season after season. We install and support it when asked — though most of our fleet gets the same picture from the DFF3D and TimeZero PBG.
Available when you want it.
If Olex is what you are after, we make sure the inputs are clean — good depth, good heading, good position — and set up backups so a hard drive failure does not cost you a decade of towing. For everyone else, the DFF3D and TimeZero give you the same live 3D bottom without a second system to maintain.
- Installed and supported when a captain specifically wants Olex
- Sounder, heading and position inputs configured and verified
- Data backup so years of bottom mapping are never lost
- Runs alongside TimeZero on the same bridge
- For most boats we point to DFF3D + TimeZero PBG instead
Spec'ing a Olex package?
New build, refit or a single failing unit — call us and we will put together a package that fits the boat and the fishery.