Houses of filth? You've seen them on the television and read about
them in the newspapers and on the Internet. People who fill their
living space with so much old junk and clutter like stacks of old
magazines and newspapers and other mathoms to the extent
there is barely any space left to move are often seen as being
quite senile.

Is this what Capt. Skippy is coming to? So much old junk aboard
that all his time is taken up messing with it that he never goes
sailing any more? Doesn't have the time or the space because
of all his, to put it kindly, "things?"

Skippy's trying to find somebody else with a boat and the same
unit so he can test his by hooking it into their system. Ya right!
Like, if I had a similar system, I would really look forward to
somebody with a crapped-out unit hooking into my system and
taking a chance his crap might ruin my perfectly functional unit(s).

For two weeks he's been worried about and spending lots of time
trying to figure out why his GPS won't send NMEA data. What's
an old POS GPS worth anyway?

Next to nothing! So toss the thing. Say good riddance and buy a
new one. Old junk is old junk and is not worth spending time trying
to repair. Generally speaking, the repair bill will cost about as much
as the new unit, anyway.

--
Sir Gregory