We've been working towards getting the communications (VHF radios, radar, GPS, etc.) wired and mounted and now, we are almost there. We've fabricated and installed a mount for the Standard Horizon GPS/Chartplotter on the bridge. That is complete and wired to the Furuno radar.
We made up a platform to hold the radar display and will finish that this week and install it next weekend.
While we had everything opened up, we snaked wires from the lower station stereo to the corners of the saloon, then up through the floor to free-standing speakers that Frances provided. Snaking wires in this boat is really an effort, meaning that I have to crawl down under the deck, snag a wire with a long pole, draw it in and then do it all again for the next wire.
While I was running new wires, I cut out another 50 feet of what appeared to be old, unused speaker wire. Why would anyone leave all that stuff hanging? No idea, but it's gone now.
It was fun to flip a switch on the stereo and have the salon filled with music. Right then, we were glad that we spent the time - two weekends - that made that music possible.
Tonight, I devised a list of things that we want to get done between now and when we go back into the water in April or early May. There are 17 things on the list; some take one-half hour and some take a whole weekend. There are 16 cold weekends left. We need to plan our time carefully.
Rob picked up samples for the new flooring product in the form of two full sized pieces in two different colors. We had planned to give them to Frances when we met her in New Haven. However, in addition to it being frightfully cold and windy, we were not parked near each other and decided to try a different plan. On our way home from New Haven, we stopped by PRM where Rob put the samples in the saloon of Act III. The river looked mighty cold at dusk on that early winter evening.
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