Electronics on boats, good Lord, do some reading and you quickly learn that it seems like three out of four vendors have one thing in common. It’s not that surprising on one hand and on the other it’s just kind of tough to manage.  New features/units released nearly every year and they all (again except one) seem to cease support for the same about three years later….

For folks that like to hang on to hard earned expensive stuff, the choice becomes kind of easy. Catch? Sure, its boating, there’s always a catch. The one company that doesn’t do the above is typically the most expensive AND has the reputation for being the LEAST user friendly, but miraculously stand behind their products. The original owners equipped our boat for offshore cruising, but 15 years later some of the stuff just isn’t working (backup depth gauges, flybridge console). So, we are updating various components to keep that vision of strong redundancy needed for safe offshore cruising. Fortunately, they really have updated their user interface, so even we (newbies) can learn how to use it…. with enough studying…

On Saturdays there is a nice Farmers Market in Port Royal that carries a large selection of veggies, cheeses, breads, honey, eggs, meats, all kinds of things. Naturally, there are also arts and crafts vendors.

Now that we are back in the water, staying at the dock at Marsh Harbor Boat Works for our upcoming electronics project would mean sitting on the bottom every low tide, unable to run air conditioning or the freezer, as they are water-cooled (not so much appreciative of muck), so we returned to Lady’s Island Marina.

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We are so glad to be back aboard and enjoying those Beaufort sunsets, but look what happened during the few weeks we were away. A definite movement was made. The sun now sets in a very different place. Time marches on as the seasons change.