August – SY LouLouDitsi

Not Fit for Passage

We arrived back late on Sunday 26 August to find LouLouDitsi safe and sound, if a little grubbier than we’d left her. We were due to leave Gouvia Marina on Tuesday, but I’ve come down with the horrendous cold that John had last week. On Tuesday I couldn’t face the walk up the pontoon for … Continue reading

Electronics: Mission Creep

When we bought LouLouDitsi there were 3 things we knew we wanted to add: a proper mattress; cockpit cushions; a GPS Chart Plotter at the helm. The first 2 were done. So, just the chart plotter then . . . Having sailed most of my life before chart plotters were around, I now wouldn’t choose … Continue reading

System Crash: No NMEA

We left Gouvia this morning with me still dosed up to the eyeballs, but functioning. Half way down the Corfu channel we lost all the electronics: “No NMEA” emblazoned on the screen. Power off and on again and everything was restored. Either the current NMEA0183 was protesting against being replaced or our decision was vindicated. … Continue reading