Capt. Skippy becoming a pack rat?
 

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

Capt. Skippy becoming a pack rat?
 

Hi, Neal, et. al.

Original left below for reference...

No, not a pack rat, though we DO carry a fair amount of spares which we know
we'll never need/be able to use, but SOMEONE will.

My favorite (you'll see why) was the SeaDog pelican hooks we originally used
on our gates. As it was just a bail/slider which locked them, they could
come off in a seaway or if a line dragged against them, or whatever. I
wound up replacing them with the more conventional lifeline pelicans which
act like a snap shackle.

However...

I kept the old ones. We are buddies with a very small boat kept in the
Bahamas, and crewed by a couple from England. We were over at their boat
and noticed that one of their gates' pelicans, very much like our old ones,
was broken.

Without saying anything, I brought them two of our 6 we'd removed, saying,
"I had these custom made for you; they should last longer than the plated
ones you had before." with a smile.

The SeaDog name was cast into the 316 casting. Guess their boat name...

:{))

As to the original GPS, as everything works perfectly with the new GPS105
from Digital Yacht, I conclude that for whatever reason, my original failed.
In my searching, I learned that there's a button battery, and others have
disassembled theirs, replaced the battery, and solved their problem. My
problem was inadequate voltage out the NMEA leads, so maybe it's a circuit
board issue; Raymarine doesn't repair these as they no longer make them and
thus have no more boards.

And, since what they make now is SeaTalk specific, for folks like me using
NMEA interface, they refer them to Digital Yacht - which I consider to be a
very high level of customer service!

As to other stuff, unless I can see a logical place for someone else to be
able to use it (such as the old staysail we took down, and the top half of a
genny we've carried around since we left St. Pete, thinking to use it for
the material to make stuff with, but now, kept to take to Haiti for the
fishermen there who are using tarps, mostly), we give it away or toss it.

I even have to give away the dozens of books I read (the SSCA 2012 Cruising
Station of the year has, now, about 40 of my books in the book exchange,
e.g.) before I can bring more aboard!

Meanwhile, we finally have a date certain before which we can't depart;
we're doing a slide presentation at the old folks' home on Friday, and my HS
reunion is on the first weekend in October. That would allow a maximum of 3
weeks before we'd have to be someplace certain, which most likely would be
St. Augustine for the reefer, with no better airport access than here,
particularly since we have the use of the Jeep from the cruising station
(we're the only cruisers in town at the moment).

So, we'll stay put until we get back from the reunion, and then head out to
St. Augustine on the first weather window...

L8R, y'all

Skip

Morgan 461 #2
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From: " Sir Gregory Hall, Esq·" åke
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Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 3:59 PM
Subject: Capt. Skippy becoming a pack rat?



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

Capt. Skippy becoming a pack rat?
 

On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:26:53 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

I even have to give away the dozens of books I read (the SSCA 2012 Cruising
Station of the year has, now, about 40 of my books in the book exchange,
e.g.) before I can bring more aboard!


===

There is a solution to book clutter onboard: The Kindle Fire.

My wife and her Kindle have become just about inseperable. It's about
the size of an I-pad, has a great screen and good ergonomics. It can
also be used as a web browser with either a WiFi connection or
Wireless 3G (probably 4G by now).

Capt. Skippy becoming a pack rat?
 

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
===

There is a solution to book clutter onboard: The Kindle Fire.

My wife and her Kindle have become just about inseperable. It's about
the size of an I-pad, has a great screen and good ergonomics. It can
also be used as a web browser with either a WiFi connection or
Wireless 3G (probably 4G by now).


:{))

It's not the least bit cluttered. There are bookshelves with very orderly
rows of books. However, they are thinning, now, as I have not been to the
dead people store (hospice equivalent of Goodwill) or GW or Starvation Army
in a while.

I go through about a book every other day or so, normally. I still have a
few dozen to read before I'm empty, though!

I'm getting a lot of pressure (not here, but from the outside) to convert to
electronic. However, cruisers' book swaps likely won't have them available
for me, and without blurbs, I won't have a clue as to whether I've read one
or not. As it is, at this point, I manage about 1/4 of my pickups being
already-read books. Some of them are long enough ago I read them again,
because they're entertaining enough...

L8R, y'all

Skip, still in St. Marys, but heading south on the first weather window
after October 7th, when I'll have returned from my 50th HS reunion (my
first)

--

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Capt. Skippy becoming a pack rat?
 

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:37:30 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Skip, still in St. Marys, but heading south on the first weather window
after October 7th, when I'll have returned from my 50th HS reunion (my
first)

===

Let us know if you get to SWFL.

The day our first Kindle arrived is the day I lost my wife. She's
not really lost of course, just hiding behind her beloved E-reader.
The Kindle Fire really is quite a slick device and it holds an amazing
number of books.