Giving Fay the Finger
Tropical Storm Fay is still beating us to submission, but I chose to hit the Golden Isles Marina today anyway. I took my wife, Leslie Brooke, along for the trip:
The egrets were at play and didn’t seem to mind the wind:
My friend’s 1999 Viking 56 sport fishing boat has the original Northstar 961x GPS system, which continues to work well for him, but the screen went out recently (for the second time in two years). Northstar has moved way past the 961 and outsourced the support to get it off their hands. Sad, considering some of the systems went in as recently as 2003 to the tune of $9,000. Lucky for him, I pulled out a full 961xd system last December with two working screens and updated computer.
After testing the replacement and removing the old screen, Brooke and I went to work laying the silicon down for the new screen. I’m grateful for the excellent factory wiring job, by the way. The used unit looked so good that the captain couldn’t tell that I had swapped the entire unit out:
What “outdated” equipment do you stand by because it just keeps on working?
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