We woke up this morning to overcast gray skies and moderate to heavy rain. We flipped on the radio to listen to the Maritime Mobile Emergency and Weather Net (7162 at 6:30 AM and 3815 at 6:30 PM local time) to find out that the tropical wave that was supposed to hit tomorrow was here! I suggested turning on the generator and going back to bed; it was just that kind of day.
The VHF radio was buzzing with conversations about being boat bound. It seemed that everyone had the same idea of watching movies and collecting rain water. We heard a lot of the Canadian cruisers calling each other. After the fourth time this happened, we decided to listen in. After all, they could have been planning an invasion! It turns out that they were planning for a Canada Day celebration.
We spent a lazy day until the afternoon, when Mike was bitten by the ambition bug and we installed the NMEA multiplexer. We now have all of our NMEA data going into the Capn and passed on to our radars as well.
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