Just watch the clip, mermaid fans. Sexy new fin-tailed radar technology purports to deliver better performance with far less power consumption (of great interest to me, with my 14 gal deisel tank), much a your digital spread-spectrum cell phone did over the old analog phones.
I’m seriously shopping for all kinds of stuff, including radar, for Temerity. And dreading the prospect of a haulout (likely two) to do the bearing and rudder work.
What do we need for Hawaii 2010? It’s only 20 months away.
This year
- New rudder bearings
- New rudder
- Chartplotter
- Seriously upgraded house power/battery/monitoring system
- AIS
- Instruments
- Autopilot
- Butt-loads of time on the ocean
- New, uncoated lifelines
- Lots of other little fixups
Next year
- New sails, lots
- Refurb running rigging as necessary
- SSB/email stuff
- Insulated backstay for the stupid SSB
- Radar
- LED cabin and external lighting
- Tender and motor (?)
- Rent or buy: EPIRB, satphone, liferaft
- Cedar bucket of stout construction
- Canvas bucket of stout construction
- More butt-loads of ocean time
As an amateur radio operator, the radar clip was interesting. Gear is always a topic for discussion in ham circles! My ancestors sailed a great deal in the Caribbean, without any of the modern appliances we take for granted. Of course, they didn’t have to worry about shipping containers floating along in the shipping lanes…
Very cool post. Am looking forward to hearing more on your preparations.