Many phone calls and emails later spread over the last days since Gareth was here, we have a new membrane on order and being sent to the importer in San Diego who will ship it out to the marina we are in. We hope to have it in a week or so. We purchased it through Rich Boren (Cruise RO) in La Paz. The reason we did this rather than just go to Amazon and order it here is that Rich has an importer he uses regularly, and oh yeah his price was lower than Amazon. We have met with Mike at PV sails and are working through the details on ordering the sails. The varnish work continues and we have asked for a couple more coats (6 instead of 4). The price was $1,000 plus material, and we asked how much for two more coats, and were told, the agreed price plus whatever we felt was reasonable. The work looks very good and they have been hard at it. Most of the effort was the prep work, now it is a couple of hours per day putting one coat of varnish on and leaving. So, two more coats is not a big percentage of the work that went into the whole project.
In the afternoon, I decided it was time to swap the two chart plotters and put the one with the backlight issue below at the navigation station. That took a couple of hours. After I had it all in place and on, I came up with an issue where everything seemed to be working except the AIS, (Automatic Identification System) this shows on the screen ships and boats that have the AIS turned on and transmitting. It gives the name and speed and direction etc. In any case it was not working, so I was thinking through what I had done and getting ready to tear it all out and start over again to plug it all back in. Then I stopped and sat back cleared my head and thought for a bit. This was the right thing to do, as I stopped myself from going down a rabbit trail. I looked over at the switch for the AIS (which we NEVER turn off) and found it had been bumped off. I turned it back on and the problem was solved! YEAH!!!! However, I have tried to change the pages on the chart plotter on deck and I can get it to look just like I want, then when we turn the power off and back on, it goes back to the default pages. Very annoying.
No pictures today.
Good update