Electronics – SY LouLouDitsi

Mathilda, who told such lies

Out for a short sail this afternoon in N F4-5. We have no GPS plotter in the cockpit to show our position, only below at the Nav table, but I’d put in a route that kept us clear of shallows, rocks, etc. When we were well away from land and clear of other boats, John … 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

They’re taking my boat apart!

It’s Thursday in Cleo. As I sit in the cockpit, Waypoint have removed the sails and running rigging, ready to un-step the mast. From the saloon comes the sound of drilling and sawing as Andy, the electronics engineer who arrived yesterday to fit our new kit, enlarges the holes in the woodwork above the chart … Continue reading

A Tent without a Boom

We lifted out 8 days before the last flight out of Preveza for UK. That should give us plenty of time, we thought when we booked it in April. Haha! Wrong! OK, so we hadn’t planned on all the electronics work. Or on the mast having to come down, getting insurance quotes etc. But where … Continue reading