I had bought a radar unit a couple of years ago. Back then I was thinking about sailing North up to Maine. I was worried about the fog they have up there.
But I never got around to installing the unit on Galena.

As it turned out, I could have really used radar while heading down the US East Coast last fall. Too many times I was out in the ocean on an offshore leg at night, or in the fog, or in the fog at night and would have loved to have a better set of eyes on board.
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I have mentioned the composting head in Galena before, but never fully explained it.

So here goes:

My friends on s/v Wandering Albatross have a composting head from Air Head (you can read all about at this linked site). I was impressed with it for several reasons.
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Time to get back to work.
The bow pulpit had been removed (to replace the bowsprite). While cruising last winter we had destroyed the port side navigation light. So I decided to replace the lights and the wiring.

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