Solar / September 23, 2020

Solar Panels Retired For The Season

With gale force winds on the forecast for tomorrow, and more stormy weather after that today was the day to bring in the solar panels for the season and store them for the winter so that they will be in good shape to start next years boating season. The solar panels did well this season

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4788 / September 20, 2020

Trip #12 – Sucia Island and on to Roche Harbor

Trip #12 marks the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th nights on the 4788 since purchasing it earlier this year. We left after work Thursday evening into a fog bank. As we left the Sandy Point harbor entrance, we could see how serious the fog was as shown below with the Red / Green channel markers

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Accessories / September 16, 2020

Phase 2 of the Simrad Upgrade

We ordered our Simrad equipment a while back, and some if has been delayed due to Covid and other circumstances. Several weeks ago we did the Simrad VHF radio install, and this week the Simrad NSS16 evo3S 16 inch Multifunction Fish Finder and Chartplotter arrived. When we purchased the boat, the configuration looked like this

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4788 / September 13, 2020

Solar… Where did the sun go?

It has been a few days since I have seen the sun due to all the forest fire smoke on the west coast. Not sure how long it will be until we see the sun again, and that means the solar is also impacted. Where we keep the boat we do not have power on

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San Juan Islands / September 10, 2020

Trip #11 – Roche Harbor

Our 11th trip of the season this year was to Roche Harbor for Labor Day weekend, three nights on the boat, which makes a total of 20 nights on board so far since we purchased the boat in March. Each time it gets a bit more comfortable. Alex and I failed at salmon fishing just

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