"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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For the most part they wasted their money.

Why do I say this? It's because most of the so-called cruisers don't do
much in the way of cruising. To wit: Capt. Skippy who has been on the hard
for close to 9 months now and the little time he did spend cruising he was
rarely out of range of wi-fi and the Internet where he could pull up radar
images from powerful ground-based radar to inform him of storms closing
in. Why, I can pull up radar images from the Miami radar and see storms
approaching from miles away on my iPod.

Skippy, like most of todays so-called sailors ,doesn't need radar aboard
any more than they need sails as little as they use either. All they
really need is a diesel engine and Internet access. About 99% of the time
they have both. That's all they really need to stay happy. That and plenty
of spliff or rum.

LOL!

Wilbur Hubbard
Skippy, like most of todays so-called sailors ,doesn't need radar aboard
any more than they need sails as little as they use either. All they
really need is a diesel engine and Internet access. About 99% of the time
they have both. That's all they really need to stay happy. That and plenty
of spliff or rum.

LOL!

Wilbur Hubbard


Wilbur, Wilbur, Wilbur,

If your telling of characteristics of yourself is the same as
characterizations of my schedule, you're only 2/3 the man you claim to be...

A while ago, you said I'd been the yard 6 months. Now it's 9, but both were
off by about 3 months :{))

Boats being what they are, one thing leads to another, and the "while we're
at it, why don't we...'s" strike - so we keep adding stuff.

You already know about the toe rail project - on which, more, anon, when
it's finished, and, maybe, even, a new section in the refit gallery - which
is nearing completion (about 2/3 done).

Here's Lydia's Facebook comment on what's happened recently:

I must hail my husband, who has done a PERFECT job on the caulking on the
port side so far. Our learning curve was on the starboard side - still
technically a good seal, but not cosmetically perfect. He's got the knack
now - it's gorgeous and I'm so proud of him Woo Hoo Honey!

Lydia has her mother up the road which has, so far, added a couple of weeks
of cumulative time here due to our frequent dissapearances thereto.

Best, she's now comfortable with the pace and nature of the work, so she's
emininently more liveable.

We do have the other comforts, which get lots of use, she being a smoker...

As to the Radar, every passage we've been on has been out of range of WiFi
(I'm VERY good at that, but beyond a dozen miles, it's unobtainium), so we
use the Radar a lot. The first gray we see, it comes on.

Getting that rig sorted out due to the incompetance of the installation
company (they used the wrong cable for the application) took me more than
two years of badgering first the company, and then, using Raymarine's
technical services division as a weapon, bludgeoning them, to get it
resolved, but it's for sure working right, now.

Even here in the yard, where the national and regional weather pictures
don't tell us what's going on, we use it when we have a time-critical
non-moisture event happening. It saved our bacon when we redid the hatch
glass (which also came out perfectly).

L8R

Skip, back to work, having celebrated the LD holiday by working, lots, other
than a brief interlude for rain :{))

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