Guru Marine

The owner of an Atlanta area car dealership had rented a condo on St. Simons Island and purchased a 22 foot Sea Pro in anticipation of a nice leisurely fishing vacation with his family before school started back up.  He gave up on the fishing, what with Tropical Storm Fay beating down us, but he still asked me to check out his GPS problems, since he wasn’t able to get his plotter to work.

I sat through a nice squall for 45 minutes waiting for him to arrive, with a nice view of SeaTow firing up the engines and getting ready to bring in a SeaRay that lost engines in the harbor:

Kudos to Morningstar Marinas for buying this joint recently and dumping some serious coin in upgrading the facilities.

Onboard, I found a Lowrance LCX-16 Cl plotter, dating back to an August 2001 purchase, as well as a West Marine branded Garmin 276c, age unknown. Both initially failed to read the map cards. While the Lowrance required a hard reset to bring it up to speed, the Garmin suffered from user error:  the owner had slipped the map card in backwards.

Ever suffer from those DOH! moments, when a tech does something simple and then hands you the bill?

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