Apr. 3, 2007 - final hurdles

The final paperwork for the finance arrived this morning... well almost... the posty obvious knocked very quietly, as when I looked in the porch at 08h30, there was a card through the letterbox..... can now collect 'letter to be signed for' from 16h30 at post office.... i'll go earlier, get it all completed there and then, and return via registered next day service....

One more final hurdle......

The fire extinguishers arrived, as did the pan holders for the cooker.... (there weren't any on the boat, so they obviously only ever ate or drank hot drinks in marinas!)

I've ordered a Lowrance 5150c plotter, which should hopefully arrive today as well, or maybe tommorrow.... I won't be able to fit it properly, but will take it along as a backup...

Primary nav will be with the existing ST50 Navcentre which is a black and white old plotter, and only has charts as far as Chichester, and is repeated to a GPS unit on the pedestal that shows distance to Waypoint, VMG, etc... plus XTE.... I'm assuming that I can still enter waypoints for areas outside of where the charts cover as it has a UK basemap... otherwise its useless for most of the journey.... and the other nav option is my laptop, with Maptech charts and a USB GPS mouse... which works very well, and for which I have all the neccessary electronic charts.... of course this will all be supplemented with paper!

Finally, was intending to go into Haslar Friday night, but apparently they don't have a fuel supply, so we'll head towards Premier instead.....