We took a two week vacation on our Hunter 460 "Liberty" from Herrinigton Harbor to New England between June 21 and July 7. My wife and I had one extra crew on the boat for the offshore trip north during week 1 and we returned with just the two of us. The boat is very easy to handle with two people. Spent two wonderful days in Block, visited Mystic, Cedar Island, Setauket-Port Jefferson, and Hempstaed Harbor. Came home via Atlantic Highlands, Atlantic City and Chesapeake City. Would really like to spend 4-6 weeks and get up to all of the graet spots noth and east of Block Island. Prior to leaving, my wife Patti and I installed a new Strong Track on the mast. We did the entire installation in 90 minutes and were able to change from the original plastic sail slides to the new stainless steel slides provided by Tides Marine while the sail was installed on the boat. The cost was under $1300 and makes raising a lowering the sail a breeze and make reefing much easier. The folks at Tides Marine know the exact dimensions and how to set up and prepare the track for the 460. If you ordre one for your boat, make sure to indicate that the headboard and full lenght battes require a Batt Car adapter and also indicate the number of slides required. On the way to Block, we took the boat through the C&D canal at stayed behind Reedy Island which is only a few miles south of the canal. This is an excellect spot and much preferrable to Chesapeake City. It has deep water, excellent holding and lots of room to anchor. Also, it allows you to traverse the canal with the outgoing tide and benefit from the entire outgoing tide when you leave Reedy Island. Got to block in thirty six hours from Reedy Island with much of it inder sail with a 15-20 knot South Easterly breeze. The boat operated beautifully but had two system problems. Thought I'd share some of the highlights. 1. This was the first chance we had to really exercize our new Raytheon color chartplotter radar with the overlay feature. Once you learn how to use this system, its a fantastic stress reducer especially when you sail short handed. We ran into very dense fog running from the Delaware Bay into the Alantic right at the coast. We always knew exactly where we were relative to the ship channel and could see the ships coming up and down then channel. After we emerged from the fog there were boats on VHF 16 asking the Coast Guard to send someone out to lead them in so they would not get run down by the ships or ferries. We ran in course up mode with radar overlay and "followed the yellow brick road". On the return trip, the system also allowed us to navigate around the tip of Cape May between Elph Shoal and Prissywicks shoal and clear the point right near shore eliminate the extra 15-20 mile distance needed to take the more conservative offshore route. However, at the very end you must pass over a shallow shoal where the bay and ocean converge with rough water and breakers. We made it but I think next time we'll be more conservative. Would have never attempted this without the color chatplotter. 2. On the first day, Saturday June 22, the Raytheon GPS would not come up and we got a "no fix" indication. I checked the display and we were getting no sattelites. Checked every connection and verified power into the WASS GPS antenna. The system came up 24 hours later and worked for the rest of the trip. My back up Garmin was fine. Called Raytheon and they said there no reported problems but I suspect a software "glitch". If anyone else experienced this, I would like to hear from them. 3. Experience an intermittent starting problem. Traced problem to a loose connection at the starter solenoid. Noted that there was no lockwasher. After tightening, still had same problem and I am now getting the solenoid changed. My mechanic says that the loose wires can cause the internal conatcts to burn due to low voltage, resulting in a secondary intermittent starting problem. Was able to start boat on one occasion by turning the key swith to the start position to engage the starting gear and then shorting out the two terminals on the back of the solenoid with a screwdriver to provide voltage to the starter. 4. Really enjoyed Block Island. Thought $40 a day for a mooring is steep. Noted that holding tank pump out service has greatly improved in New England with a trend to free pump outs. If municipalities are serious about perceived pollution, this is the way to go. 5. Came back via Long Island Sound and East River and was able to anchor in the East River for the NYC Macys July 4th fireworks. They were fantastic. Boats must anchor south of the Williamsburgh Bridge. There is a creek on the Brooklyn shore just south of the bridge with a enough room along the shore to anchor out of the 4 knot tide rip in the river. Spectacular location to see a great event. Watching the motorboats attempt to anchor was almost as good. One 45 foot Carver though the procedure was to drop 25 feet of chain with a CQR anchor in 20 feet of water and drive forward through the anchored fleet at 5 knots until it caught something! He caught at least 4 ancor lines. Was soundly booed and then cheered when he raised his anchor and left. Left the spot after the fireworks and got into Atlantic Highlands at 1 AM. Again, at night in NY Harbor with all of the traffic and confusion, the chartplotter was a wonderful stress reduced. Basically set a waypoint at a point on the map 2 or 3 miles ahead with a cursor and then had the autopilot steer to cursor so that Patti and I could concentrate on watching the mayhem unfold around us. 6. Only other system problem was the aft holding tank macerator. Tank would not empty so we cleaned out pump, then changed the pump to no avail. Finally pulled the sensor afer a pump out and found that there was a build up of "stuff" around the bottom of the tank and tube that goes to the pump. We cleared that with a stick and then flushed with water pressure from a hose. We then flushed the tank with fresh water and Dawn and will now follow Peggy Hall's recommendation for frequent fresh water/Dawn Detergent washes. Looking forward to next years cruise. Will have to live with week end cruises for the rest of the season.