but no radar, no fancy
chart-plotter or any of the 'electronic crutches' that you admit your boat
is festooned with.

I'm sorry. But you really don't need them. I was just lucky in that my boat had
them aboard when I bought her.
When you move up to a better boat you'll find better tools aboard in all
likelyness.
We are moving up to a C&C 36 (called the 34+) and that boat will probably have
tons of toys. We'll still use our paper charts.

RB