Legless

On Friday Moonshine was pulled out of the water for her annual winter maintenance programme.

 

We have also removed both outdrives, which are to be overhauled, leaving Moonshine 'legless'.  We have been putting this off for the last two years due to the cost, but Peter hopes to take these down to I.V.S.S Marine in Kent next Friday.  This will be an expensive job but one that is well overdue and will be very worthwhile and cost effective in the long term, and will be as good as new once fully refurbished. 

 

A few weeks ago on our final cruise of the year we discovered the Raymarine C80 MFD chart plotter screen had decided to start playing up. After checking the dash connections the unit was taken home and dismantled and after a quick check of the ribbon tape connections to the screen (which has been known to play up on this type of plotter) were made secure, and  since the unit is well out of warranty it was a risk worth taking. Luckily after refitting the chart plotter it is still working, but if it decides to play up again it may be on a return ticket to Raymarine to be fixed.