Last weekend we took a mini-vacation to the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, primarily to attend some of the seminars. It pretty much rained all weekend, and my (Daniel) leather shoes were soaked several times. However, we did manage to sell our old 45-pound CQR anchor to a guy from Alberta, look at several new and one used yacht, buy a couple of toys, and attend several excellent seminars. Here's a photo of a couple of the new toys (hand-held sonar and a hand-held VHF radio). The radio has DSC capability, which means we can query the radio on C-Time and it will send it's GPS location to the handheld radio. So while we're on land, we'll be able to determine if her anchor is dragging or if she's been stolen.
The new boats at the boat show looked pretty much like they have for the last two years. We spent a little more time looking at catamarans this year to see if we have multi-hull envy. They have a lot of nice space, but boy do they look like a lot more work to keep up. Twice as much hull to wax, twice as many engines to maintain, and twice the cost for a slip. Even if we had the extra money that a cat costs, I'm not sure we would want the extra headache. But they are nice!The most enjoyable seminars were those presented by Pam Wall. She did an excellent job of talking about cruising the Abacos and how to prepare a boat for cruising. She's quite a character and I hope we have the opportunity to run into her while cruising.
We have several things going on for these several weeks, so we're missing seeing our girl. I'm working on boat projects at home during the week, so you can read about those on the Port page.
