I launched 3 weeks ago, but the weather never really cooperated until yesterday to go for a ride. Up until yesterday, I've been killing myself washing, polishing, buffing and waxing the boat. I used a DeWalt wheel and 3M FinesseIt to polish, with a gray foam pad, and then I used paste wax and waxed it all by hand. Below is a picture of me yesterday, elated that the polishing and waxing is done. Man, I hate doing that. My arms and hands need the break. But it came out great. Very happy with the results. Anyway, here's some other takeaways from my short excursion yesterday:NavionicsCool program. I like it. I do wish it had Track Up, but I'll get used to North Up. It's not as big a deal as I thought it would be. It's not as good as my regular Garmiin chartplotter (441s). The refresh is about once per second (which is totally fine, but not as good as the Garmin which seems to refresh many times per second. Maybe 5 times? Just a guess there). But all in all, I love having the bigger screen on my Ipad. Well worth the money for the App. I don't like that my iPad goes dim and then the screen goes black every few minutes. Maybe there's a setting for that? But that's kinda annoying. Glare of the iPad was not an issue at all. I was surprised by that too. Overall, it's a nice addition for this year.Garmin BlueCHart G2 Vision CardYesterday was my first time using the plotter with this card. I don't get the hype. It was kinda cool to have the pics, and satellite imagery, but its not really needed. "Fish View" was kinda cool too, but is it really needed? I'm glad I bought a used one on ebay, because if I shelled out the big bucks for one of these things, I'd be PO'd. Maybe I'm missing something and haven't figured out it's "true potential" yet. Not sure.Rocna Anchor 33#I used my new anchor twice yesterday. Set easily and quickly both times. I think I can really get used to the "set it and forget it" mentality. 
New Stereo systemOver the winter I bought new JBL 6/5" speakers for the radar arch, and a 4 channel JBL marine amp on ebay. What an improvement. Sounds great. The only problem is that when I turn it up, I hear lots of vibrations coming from the radar arch itself. I'm not sure if its the wires in the arch vibrating or the molding on the arch, but i need to figure it out. Maybe I just need some of that sound dampening material to stick on the inside of the arch. I'll try that next. Anyone else have a similar problem?Well, that's about it. Here I am very excited to wear my new t-shirt....
[img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/682328=27376-2012-05-06 13.30.59.jpg[/img]-John
New Stereo systemOver the winter I bought new JBL 6/5" speakers for the radar arch, and a 4 channel JBL marine amp on ebay. What an improvement. Sounds great. The only problem is that when I turn it up, I hear lots of vibrations coming from the radar arch itself. I'm not sure if its the wires in the arch vibrating or the molding on the arch, but i need to figure it out. Maybe I just need some of that sound dampening material to stick on the inside of the arch. I'll try that next. Anyone else have a similar problem?Well, that's about it. Here I am very excited to wear my new t-shirt.... [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/682328=27376-2012-05-06 13.30.59.jpg[/img]-John
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