So after a fab trip to Catalina we sailed back to the quaint coastal town of Dana Point. Certainly one of the best anchorages of the trip so far and within a mile of a West Marine. This gave Mike a chance to make their stock rise with an investment that made wall street take notice. The purchase, a brand new state of the art radar and GPS system with in built satellite radio weather forecasting! An extravagance...far from it. Firstly it was a replacement for an analogue radar that could only detect land not boats and a GPS that didn't know which way north was. Secondly, with this addition, Indian Summer's cruising pedigree would be up there with the very best of ocean going vessels :)
The only problem was installing it. A stroke of luck came in the form of a young electrician Mike met while buying the unit, who said he would help him fit it for a quarter of what he'd been quoted previously. The job was on. After three days of climbing up and down the mast, pulling endless wires through tight spaces, drilling holes in the boat and even a spot of scuba diving trying to retrieve a piece of equipment Mike dropped/flung overboard, the unit was in. Not only that but for the first time in Indian Summer's history it all worked perfectly! After a 5 day pit stop we were moving on safe in the knowledge that we knew where we were going and we weren't going to hit anything.
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