Shine on at the Hotel Buena Vista, East Cape, B.C.S., Mexico.
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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
The Mermen play the Great American Music Hall November 29. This one I might actually make.
Sea Siren by Nicole.







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