Bob Phillips of Another Asylum wrote: >Updating electronics is just buying two or three hand held GPS's, new >charts, a good set of dividers and a parallel rule, a couple of hand >held VHF's, cell phone, all you need for 1K or less. Don't get caught >in the trap of trying to make it "perfect", or you'll never go >anywhere. That's the best advice I've heard on the List in a long time. As a professional observer of the passagemaking scene, I cannot begin to count the number people I've encountered over the years who are still working on getting their boats ready. The most difficult part of passagemaking, or any cruising, is leaving the dock. --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997 Site see: <http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com>