They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here are two photos.
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| You can see the ventilation holes in this photo. Once the tile is done there will be better balance between the intake and out put holes. |
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| A close up some of the tiles I am planning on using for this. |
Finally got the honey do shipping list pared down to just a few more items that need to be bought. Finally I can start looking at boat equipment again! Yippppee!!!!!!!!!! I ordered a puck GPS to go with the Open CPN. I have been playing around with the software just to get familiar with it. Down the road I want to be able to use sextant and old technology more then any thing. Lets face it the satellites are great and all that. GPS will tell you exactly where you are as will AIS. I don't have any thing against all that. In the back of my mind I cannot shake this thought of what with the news reports of a major solar storms cycle being in progress, what good will GPS do if one of the solar flares they are talking about as possibilities comes close enough to make an EMP that affects the satellites? The way I see it better safe then sorry. Am I going to feel foolish if nothing like that ever happens? Absolutely not! Being prepared for worse case scenario is part of sailing the way I see it. Equipment breaks down. If I am not dependent on it, I do not have to worry about my trip being held up for lack of electronics. For now I have a cheap plastic sextant to use. All I have to do is drill a hole in it and put a lanyard through it to hang around my neck while I am using it so I don't accidentally drop it over board and I am good to go. Yes, eventually I want to get a better sextant. But I figure if this cheap one is good enough to use as a back up it is good enough to use. as my main one until finances allow for a better one.
