This is a view from in front of our cottage in Mackinaw City. All the years of looking out at the water has helped to inspire us to
to explore more of our country's waterways.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Equipment

Been busy buying misc. equipment that would be needed for any boat.   Mary talked me into a color floating hand held GPS instead of the monochrome without a map feature.  Ordered a PLB and floating hand held VHF.    We looked at a couple of used Dahon folding bikes on Sunday, did some additional research and found some at REI at a very good price.  There are some items I want to upgrade and add to the boat but will wait until after survey before purchasing.

Been busy putting together a list of needed charts and guidebooks, quite expensive new. Will wait a bit and see if some used ones show up.   Have purchased a couple charting apps for the IPad, which seem to work very well.  I have also just started to add all our CD's to the laptop, which will then be synced with the IPad.

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