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| From 2012-05-18 |
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| From 2012-05-18 |
When you enter Nassau Harbor it is a requirement that you ask permission to enter the harbor from Nassau Harbor Control for obvious reasons :) As we were approaching Nassau I mentioned to CTM that I didn't remember hearing any chatter on our VHF in a couple of days. Well, my worst fears came true....we discovered OUR VHF WAS NOT WORKING!!!! Thankfully we have a hand held VHF on board and were close enough to Harbor Control to talk to them on it. We spent most of the day Saturday running up and down the streets of Nassau searching for a new VHF that would work for us. And....the Dockmaster at our marina had a friend of a friend of a friend that had two VHF radios he had "purchased in Fort Lauderdale".....NOT I was thinking......but who cared at this point.....we NEEDED a new VHF and didn't care where it came from. To make a long story short we were not able to find one that would interchange with our Icom on board so Dr. Dave and Leann will be bringing one with them when they arrive on Thursday. There is more than one way to skin a cat!!!! A side note to this story is that when we bought the FF III it had a Raymarine VHF on it and our electronics guru in Miami told us it was "junk" so we opted to replace it with an Icom. In Nassau we found an electronics guru that told us the Icoms were "junk." Guess it depends on where you are in the world :)
Next stop....ELEUTHERA! Scott and Karen will join us there!
Catch you on the flip flop....
CJM
Looks like "Houseboat Hell", houseboat changeover days at PCM. Well, not exactly, but the Sumersets seemed that big sometimes when the wind was really blowing:)
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Bring that Vhf radio home with you and let my team see if we can fix it so you will have a spare if my ICOM technicians can't fix it we can see about replacing the internal circuit board... Shiaaammm spare radio.... the Looperman
ReplyDeleteWill do. We have a spare everything else...a spare radio would be GREAT!
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