Busy Day in Beaufort
Old Radio Out, New One In
We spent most of the day today shopping, doing laundry and trying to get a new workable radio set up. Caught a ride into town with another crew that is getting their boat repaired, we were going to the same marine supply store and grocery store. Bought some bibs, deck shoes, life lights (lights for our life vests) and a new VHF radio.
The old radio worked fine but the remote control head started flaking out. The radio itself is below deck at the electronics station, but it’s generally worthless there because you can’t use it from the cockpit from there. The remote control head allows you to talk, listen, change channels and volume from the cockpit. That is about the only place you use the VHF radio, so it’s critical to get fixed. The marine supply store of course did not have the entire system, so we are here until Thursday at least.
I did get the radio mounted, which is the white radio in the above pic. The hole in the wall is where the old radio was mounted. Looks a bit ugly at this point but we will clean it up in Florida when we get to a long layover point.
Sunset Off the Starboard of Good Karma
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