AIS from the cockpit

I love the wireless VHF radio that we now have available in the cockpit. We had real ship and boat traffic while sailing from Fort Lauderdale down to Miami then the left turn we made to cross the Gulf Stream. Unlike last year's experience with shipping traffic where we'd go below and look at the AIS output in the nav station, we now look at it wirelessly. How novel.

Seeing a nearby ships SOG, COG, and Bearing is very reassuring. Match up what you see visually with the data on VHF and it all makes much more sense.