A mixed week.
Continued to work on finishing the handrails and new veneer in the
v-berth and it’s almost done now. On the
radar issue, given that repairing the old antenna array was fully half the cost
of a whole new system, I decided to bite the bullet and get a new one. That way I get a spare display, spare
magnetron (which has a limited life), spare cable and a new warranty. The new (and old) systems arrived this week,
but I wasn’t able to install the new antenna yet. So, I needed a place to store the two big
boxes. I was planning to get a larger
storage unit anyway, so the arrival of the radar meant this was the week for
shit-shifting. And, if you haven’t
noticed, the holidays are coming up fast, so some time was spent getting and wrapping gifts. The extreme weather was the big event of the week though. I
experienced the strongest wind gusts in the slip ever, with Circadian heeling
over significantly in a gust that was at least 40 mph. The high surf and king tides combined to cause
damage to the pier and beaches, waves came over the breakwater, and the
normally placid “kiddy beach” where the outriggers are launched had three-foot
surf. My club’s boats were safe, but we helped another club move their boats
further up the beach as they came close to being washed out to sea! If this is a preview of the coming el nino weather, it could be
trouble!
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| Photo: Ventura County Star |
