Late season boating on NW waters

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Pat,
Great pictures. Just get out of there before tonight's windstorm!!

On your Radar problems. I had a weird one like this a while back and ended up paying $150 for technicians to check out the scanner only to find that it was the very silly little flat connector that Raymarine use on the signal cable at the back lower section of the scanner. Unfortunately you have to get on the roof and undo the three screws holding down the dome. Warning, they are "captive" and you do not need to undo them all the way. If you do, it is 100% guaranteed that you will drop them and even if they do not go in the water or hide amongst the gravel on your driveway, it is a PITA to have to climb down and get them back. When you get the dome off you can reach over the top and get your tame Swiss Gnome with muscular fingers to get down to this stupid (did I mention that I hate it ?) connector and make sure it is firmley pushed in. You can also do a quick power-up and make sure that the antenna rotates while you have the lid off. If it does not then that can also be the connector or the speed sensor according to Raymarine.
When you put the lid back on, it is only 99% certain that one of more of the captive screws will be liberated by some radical group and fall in the water/driveway etc.

The reason I an going into such detail is because I know just how much you love these mechanically challenging tasks and this seems like a perfect excercise to do in on a dock in a snowstorm. NOT.

Drive safe,

Merv
 
Actually being in the snow and boating in the snow were kind of cool! Inflatable Santas and Christmas trees with no snow are just wrong! We are home now after retrieving in the driving rain - neither fun nor cool. Then the snow was not completely melted back in Fall City, and there is a hill that is hard enough for the Expedition to pull the boat up when it is completely dry - right now it is bare wet tracks with slush in the middle and on the edges. I am 85% confident I could make it up, those odds are not good enough! So Daydream is down on the flatlands in Fall City until the snow is really gone. I sure hope I have a kicker and electronics when I go to bring it back up the hill...probably not tonight, since although it is raining and the snow is melting, the temperature is also dropping and somehow ice sounds worse than slush...but I did get my boating "fix" in spades!!!!

JamesTXSD":3v2lqazx said:
Pat and Patty,

I just showed Joan those images and she said, "EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" After some thought, "When you gotta get out, you gotta get out. That's better than sitting at home."

We would not consider boating in the snow, because we would not consider being in the snow again. We applaud your willingness to be "out there." :thup It's nice to have different perspectives.

I still say, "You guys are tough!" :xlol

Best wishes,
Jim & Joan
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Merv - it definitely is something like that, when I select the Radar page is says "No input device" or something like that, no signal coming into the display unit...the repair sounds like it is just up my alley - NOT! I am still hoping, a faint hope I know - that there is some kind of setting to enable radar that got reset on the firmware upgrade, even though nobody else has encountered that.
 
PUGET SOUND AND HOOD CANAL- 243 PM PST SUN DEC 2 2007 ...GALE WARNING NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... .TONIGHT...S WIND 25 TO 35 KT...RISING TO 35 TO 45 KT LATE THIS EVENING. WIND WAVES 4 TO 6 FT...BUILDING TO 6 TO 8 FT. RAIN. .MON...SW WIND 35 TO 45 KT...

I dont think its even C-Dory weather tonight.

Tom
 
Pat,
Thought your idea about not trusting your odds on the hill were right on. My last trip out to Pend Orielle was in 20 degree weather, the ramp iced up during the day and it took three trys to get Mzkaye out of the water. Slid backwards into the lake twice! Not Fun!! :shock:
I'm waiting for a nice, warm 33 degree day to get back out for the fish.
chris
 
Hey Chris! Here is a good one - Patty did not cash my Mackinaw bounty check in the allotted time - but it was STILL a great time, thanks so much!
Chris & Donna Bain":jffme24g said:
Pat,
Thought your idea about not trusting your odds on the hill were right on. My last trip out to Pend Orielle was in 20 degree weather, the ramp iced up during the day and it took three trys to get Mzkaye out of the water. Slid backwards into the lake twice! Not Fun!! :shock:
I'm waiting for a nice, warm 33 degree day to get back out for the fish.
chris
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OK, the end of the story for today...all's well that ends well! Daydream is safely home in our driveway! Normally the incessant rain is, well, depressing - tonight it was music to my ears, because it was melting the snow! The temperature did not drop, it is still in the 40s out there right now. We went to dinner at Patty's nephew's house in Snoqualmie, and when we got back home, the snow was gone by about 9:30 p.m., so back down to the flatlands we go to hook up and pull 'er up the hill! A long day though...
 
Pat,
Does sound like a connection problem. Before you get the chain saw and blow torch out you could check the connectors on the back of the display. You can normally get them off with minimal cursing. Many times just pulling them out and puttig back will clear a problem.
(Did I mention I hate connectors ?)

Merv
 
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