Santa came!

Ken Cross

Ken Cross

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Oct 24, 2010
2,405
Hunter 30 Everett, WA
We'll the Admiral must have been in a great mood because under the tree was a new 9 inch Garmin plotter. It will take some effort to run the transducer cable into the nav pod, but I suspect it will be worth it. Our old one is super slow. It may end up in the digital dumpster.


Ken
 
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jssailem

jssailem

SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
Oct 22, 2014
24,516
CAL 35 Cruiser #21 moored EVERETT WA
I’ll be up there in January. If time matches yours I’ll be glad to help.
 
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Terry Cox

Terry Cox

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Dec 25, 2000
6,052
Hunter Passage 42 Shelter Bay, WA
Oh you lucky dude. Although our 2005 vintage Garmin plotter still does an amazing job, I suspect yours is the latest cat's meow. Ditto running the cables to the cockpit pedestal. That was quite the chore, but well worth the effort.
 
Will Gilmore

Will Gilmore

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Oct 19, 2017
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Leeward Rail said:
Crap... in my little email window I thought this thread said "Santa Camel"...
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:laugh: How disappointed you most be. :frown:

Santa hasn't been to my house yet. He's suppose to get here next week. Maybe he'll have a leftover he can unload on me. The plotter, that is, not a camel.

-Will (Dragonfly)
 
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31seahorse

31seahorse

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Aug 2, 2005
1,155
Pearson 33-2 & Typhoon 18 Seneca Lake
Merry Christmas to All and to All, Hang on tight! No, I seem to have gotten that quote messed up.

Anyway, Eileen insisted that I buy my own present (Christmas and birthday combined - Dec 25 & 28). Her recommendation was a new mainsail for our Celebrity. I contacted M & H Bartles Sailmakers in Maine and got the info just before Christmas and will order in the next 2 weeks.

RE: Santa came! Ken, of course you know about using a messenger line or wire to fish the new cable through where the old one is located. (Assuming the new one goes where the old one is.)
 
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Tally Ho

Tally Ho

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Jan 7, 2011
5,906
Oday 322 East Chicago, IN
My Admiral put an Old Milwaukee Right-Angle cordless drill and a “Cranker” bit under the tree. She knows I want to be able to climb the mast by myself (and I don’t have the heart to tell her that this won’t do it). But it is a sweet tool and will make it a lot easier to find someone to help get me up the mast...heck, maybe the Admiral herself will be able to do it!

Happy Holidays,

Greg
 
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jssailem

jssailem

SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
Oct 22, 2014
24,516
CAL 35 Cruiser #21 moored EVERETT WA
Don’t take all day. Get in the car and dash to the boat. You have a brief weather window. Now to 3PM. Sure temps will be chilly. But man, it is a new Garmin 9 inch screen plotter.

I would want to measure and explore the possibilities. Granted I’d do it a few times before I grabbed a screwdriver and wire cutters. But the time spent on the boat thinking about the task would be wonderful.
 
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Meriachee

Meriachee

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Aug 1, 2011
3,972
Catalina 270 255 Wabamun. Welcome to the marina
Sitting on the boat would be fantastic. Looking at the @Sailavie1 sprit pictures from yesterday show the conditions in the yard. Not exactly a boat kinda month. :(
 
Leeward Rail

Leeward Rail

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Mar 20, 2015
3,304
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Meriachee said:
Not exactly a boat kinda month. :(
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Not true. Some parkas + some mulled wine + a boat on it's trailer/stand + imagination & sense of fun.

Our boat is stored at our nephew's farm this year, otherwise I would have decorated it with xmas lights and done the above for fun. :D

Though.. it would be hard to operate a new plotter with thick gloves/mitts.
 
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Meriachee

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Aug 1, 2011
3,972
Catalina 270 255 Wabamun. Welcome to the marina
Yeah but.... There's this sail bag in the basement that has the newly recut main with the shirt-tail loose foot and the top number of battens that are now reconfigured to full length and have the sweet velcro locks, and a full set of high tech carbon battens and it's all sooooooooo depressing. :)
 
Leeward Rail

Leeward Rail

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Mar 20, 2015
3,304
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Meriachee said:
it's all sooooooooo depressing.
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Amen to that. I was in Mexico last week (gift from mrs claus) and the only sailboats I saw in the bay were the fake pirate ship and party cats. I was craving just a couple hours on the water. New toys or not.
 
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jssailem

jssailem

SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
Oct 22, 2014
24,516
CAL 35 Cruiser #21 moored EVERETT WA
Well for sure not for the weak of spirit.
So some spirits and adventure forward. Put on some tunes and think warm thoughts.
 
Kings Gambit

Kings Gambit

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Jul 27, 2011
5,180
Bavaria 38E Alamitos Bay
Spent Christmas Day and night on the hook during the gale warning for our, and adjacent, weather zone(s), which turned into a SCA by early morning on the 26th. Not bad (15 - 22 kt) lying to in the well-protected LB Anchorage at Island White. I was toasty in the new socks Santa dropped off the night before!!!
 
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Crazy Dave Condon

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Jun 8, 2004
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Drinking coffee.GIF
Sorry to report no nautical thingies this season but a couple of n scale engines with DCC and sound. Trying to reprogram them is funnier than fiddlesticks. My way of programming is to stare those engines down .
One other thing. I am the expert on the tractor at plowing snow. That darn house of mine is bad for not getting out of the way. Too much coffee makes me nervous I guess.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
 
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