Today I headed over to don’s boat this am to see if we could get his autopilot to work. We had “fixed” it back in viequas by adding heavier gage wire to prevent it from dropping out every time the bat voltage got below 12 volts. this worked but the new problem was it would not hold course. some how in the process of rewiring it we reset the stored parameters. with a little...
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today i decided to take a look at the AIS which had filled with water due to a leak in the port window and a suboptimal waterproofing design. i had “fixed” the window back in las palmas but alas it did not last. but this is another story. the ais is “water proof” except for a hole under the membrane key board where the ribbon cable goes in. water can seep under the...
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I wrote a great entry about don and coconuts but alas it was deleted by mac mail cheers, roger
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In spite of our long bochi day we where up bright and early this am and decided to get out of dodge and head north back to culebra. We wanted a little chill time and we dont seem to be able to to stay in one place more than a week. it will be interesting to see if this ever changes. we left town before anyone was up and after about 2.5 hours motoring to weather had a great sail up to our...
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After spending a few days recovering from the Larry Sherri event we where ready to get back to activities. The reality was we spent most of the days at lazy jacks working and using their internet and most of the evenings at lazy jacks enjoying rum and cokes and margaritas and meeting the “town”. After about a week we pretty much new everyone so one evening we invited everyone out to...
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