Archive | Gear RSS feed for this category

RADAR!

29 November 2011

0 Comments

After 20 trips up the mast (+-?) we’ve finally fixed the radar. Thanks go out to Johnson Hicks Marine Electronics in Santa Cruz for their help and advice in spite of the fact that they weren’t making much money on us. This is a big deal. Huge.

Continue reading...

Big Eyes

30 July 2011

1 Comment

Big Eyes

Okay…I guess they’re not really Big Eyes, but our new BARSKA Gladiator binoculars did a pretty bang up job of revealing last night’s moon, in all its pockmarked glory. We’ve been planning on replacing our binoculars later, rather than sooner. Our first pair is, admittedly, more than a little worse for the wear. Even so, […]

Continue reading...

Gill Rocks My World

6 June 2011

0 Comments

Gill Rocks My World

It really was a dark and stormy night, some fourteen years past and I guess it must have been around 2 in the morning when a storm rolled in and engulfed our little anchorage off the oyster shell beach. It was our first winter living aboard our trimaran Night Heron. I slipped out of bed […]

Continue reading...