1800PDT, 34.18.9 N, 119.45.5 W, Wind SW 7 Gust 9, cloud cover 10 percent thin marine layer. Start time plus 111 hours.
In other news Evil's long anticipated visit to Avalon on Catalina Island may be in jeopardy.
As you may know it came as a bit of a surprise when Chuggy discovered that Plan B was scheduled to start the race 3 days earlier than expected. Not only crimping some travel arrangements less time for preparation meant less time for crimping some wiring on board!
The complex electrical heart of Plan B has gone through a few iterations since it left the loving care of yours truly in Canukistan. Some of the modifications in the interim were not performed to standards and when you through in a little hard service along the way well you get the idea some work was required to get the systems on line and talking to each other. Now you wouldn't think that would pose a problem with a journeyman electrician on board but after a communication with Evil just now, as near as I can figure, all he got done today was to break the depth sounder! Barkmulch had it working perfectly yesterday? I understand Chuggy will be giving the boys a little pep talk regarding the abundance of accomplishment and the direction!
Some problems remain to be sorted with the radio also. This is very important because without the radio there is no e-mail and without e-mail I will be out of work while the race is in progress - and there is some silly rule about a working radio to be eligible for the race too. And time is getting short so like Neil Young says, "in the fields of conductivity it's ploughing time again" - or he says something like that.
So Evil's trip to Catalina hangs on some wiring resolution and production tomorrow!
Blogmeister reporting.
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