TRYING TO KEEP UP

Pinoy boat Service
Port Carmen, Cebu
Philippines

OK, here it is 1900 on Sunday and I've realized that I have yet to get started on a weekly update of this blog. Hey I have made the last several weeks in a row so, turn on the computer, pour a rum and get to it.

A FINE PHILIPPINE RUM

So it has not been a terribly impressive week as the cap rail project just keeps moving along at it's own pace. There is forward progress but as far as anything impressive just the same old stuff. Pick out plugs, clean old bedding compound, grind out fiberglass, fill voids, fit the cap rail back on and re-attach with 5200 compound and screws and finally plug over the tops of the screws. I did manage to remove the last section on the starboard side today. A detriment has, for this USA sports follower, been the baseball world series. Here the games are televised but with a start time of 0800 it makes it hard to both watch and get work done.

The big news of the week would be finally getting the Automatic Identification System up and working. For those that don't know this is a transponder system for vessels showing various navigation information and allows us to keep track of vessels required to have transponders as they navigate on the oceans of the world. For more just google AIS. This was an electronic gizmo that Kathy had brought back from the states been installed but really was not functioning, Friday morning I started anew and got it to work on both our computer navigation program and the newly installed chart plotter

READOUT ON OUR PLOTTER

INFORMATION ON MANGO

ON THE COMPUTER

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Above we see the read out of four vessels in our area, Mango is only 313 feet away from us and in our danger zone. Not to worry he is in Pepe's boat yard next to us an not moving. Only the one with the MMSI number, google that, 111111111 is moving. Next you see Mango's information. The other photos show a later time with other vessels represented as green or yellow triangles, these are on the navigation program Open CPN. If I were to click on the triangle I would get similar information as you have seen about Mango. So as we cross the oceans we'll now "see" other vessels and they will see us. When registering I said we were the undersea vessel Nautilus commanded by Captain Nemo just to keep everyone aware that we could be perhaps "Po oino" or a little crazy in the head.


Manana en la manana more cap rail work and the world series.