Well our radar installation is finally complete; the boat is put back together and it seems to be working perfectly. What a long project; in reality it started in October when Atlantic Tower installed the custom Arch then continued through February while I made a custom instrument panel to hold the new Garmin chart plotter.
What I thought would be 2 full days, or one weekend, to install the dome, GPS antenna and the new anchor light turned into three weekends with a weekday thrown in for good measure. I made the decision to cut the Ethernet connector off the marine network cable to make it easier to run the wire and keep the whole size to a minimum turned out to be a bigger issue than I imagined. I read up on the how too, borrowed the proper tools and in the end had to hire a Garmin tech for a 5 minute project to crimp on the new end that I had to repurchase. It cost more to ship the new connector then to purchase one so I ordered 3, one to use and two as spares. Instead of the three ends I received three boxes for a total of six (anybody need one
).
The marina is hoping to launch her in the morning and if the weather is descent on Saturday we will head down in the afternoon for our first overnight of the young season. If it doesn’t rain I’ll post a few photos; the gang here in Mystic seems to like the way it came out and like the forward sweeping curve of the arch rather than the traditional rear angled box (I had posted photos of the arch on an earlier post).
Total:
8 extra days working on the boat
2 hands full of cuts, scraps and lacerations
Several new “French” words shouted out
And one friend who was there through it all “Priceless” Thanks Pete!
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