The good: I finally got the AIS working again! This time it was the cable connecting it to the chartplotter. So it works again, until next time. Had a lot of help by e-mail from Colin, the Tech Service guru in England. [This repair gave me something to do today; it's raining and we are on a mooring ball.]
The bad: For the second time, our [formerly-owned] Suzuki dinghy outboard broke - instead of the shear pin, it was some internal part that broke. When this happened several years ago in Florida, it cost us about $200 and a couple of days to get it fixed. This time I threw the damn thing away, and we bought a new Honda 2.3 hp 4-stroke short-shaft outboard - will have it by tomorrow. I just can't go with "unreliable". Should have bought a Honda in the first place. Well, there goes another Boat Unit ...
The ugly: The cable connecting the wind vane with the boat (running down inside the mast) is broken. Rayfuckingmarine wants $107 to replace the wire and proprietary connector, plus shipping. And then there will be the mast-threading and (partial-?) mast unstepping. This time we will find someone else to do it. [Yeah, it broke because of our stepping the mast ourselves at a lousy place with river swells and wakes, but the use of 32-gauge or smaller wire had a lot to do with it too.] Meanwhile, it's back to sailing without a wind gauge. I think we used to do this all the time ... And more money, of course.
CRUISING :: "Boat repair and maintenance in exotic locations ..."
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