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From: mgd9121961 (no email)
Date: Sat Nov 27 2004 - 21:55:55 EST
Well John many of the questions you ask we are still asking ourself.
When we relocate we are going to go to work at least for a while
during which we will try to save enough to cruise for an extended
time but will likely return to work if we fail to find ways to
support our cruise along the way.
The copper bottom is still in the testing phase for me. From all Ive
seen so far it has no effect on surounding wood but it eats zincs
like a teenager goes through breakfast cereal. In the end we may
find that it isnt worth not having to haul and paint and may strip it
off.........time will tell.
As for keeping it simple. My idea is to use stand alone electronics
that if one fails you dont lose everything and be sure to have the
skills to get to port no matter what fails. That is one wonderful
thing about wind vane steering, No power, no problem,
we currently have a good chart plotter but the paper is always at the
helm right along side it. we will have SSB as a matter of safety as
much as anything else and we will have radar.
I just dont want to rely on this stuff to much and find myself lost
without it.
Mike D.
-- In , John Drayton
<johnqdrayton at y dot dot dot > wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Sounds like a good plan to me. Will you be retiring
> then or will you be taking early retirement and just
> going and then planning to return to work when you
> have to?
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