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Babe is there.  We have three.  As to the rest, I don't know.

But of course!

No, No, No.  Need 10-15's each day.  None of the light air junque.

My wife, my daughter-in-law, and all my grand kids thought spot was the hottest ticket in town.  Gonna get me one of those.

How sweet it was!

While I still have the Raymarine stuff on Stinger, I can second Chris' comments.  The only reason I don't switch is that the previous owner seemed to feel that if one instrument was good 7 was better.  That's a lot of holes to plug.

Our biggest problem was with an intermittent wind instrument.  When I took delivery of the boat it would work for a few days and then stop.  Hauled Kevin B up the mast many times until finally one day he hit the right button and it has worked ever since.  Still have the accuracy problem but by and large everything sorta works.

Raymarine is not all that interested in sailboat racing so many of the kinds of data one might want to see are either not available or very difficult to display.  As far as I know its not possible to display when lifted or headed.  This feature is pretty much automatic on the Tactick.

There are a number of instruments that are worthy of consideration, but semi-wireless operation is really a great feature.

Stinger is now on her return to Kemah.  She rounded the R6 bell at 11:06 AM and is just a bit ahead of the Matagorda outer buoy just pass  Port O'Conner at 17:49.  Averaging a bit above 8 knots.  Wish I was there.  Sounds like a hoot to me.  With luck she will be off Freeport close to midnight.  Too bad the run down was not that fast.  Hope the wind holds.

Better known as the Compass Bank Regatta.  Hell of a deal when our banks get bought out by ferriners.

Apparently the ones out by HYC bobbed.  Or, is that boobed?

Hmm.  Are you guys really going to tell someone to GO FLY A KITE?

Argh --- its them pirates what's makin da trouble

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

I have a Timex Epedition.  Its the one with the compass.  Also has everything one needs for racing.  Amazing accuracy.  Haven't reset it in a year and it still gets with a couple second of atomic time.

Timex taks a licking and keeps on ticking.  I have one with a compass that works well for me.  With the 7 instruments on board I am not sure I need anything else.

Really wish I could have made the race and/or party.  Pictures really are great.  Thanks.