I ran across this on CL, but tracked down the YachtWorld listing:
- GPS: 2 Trimble Navtrac and NEW Furuno GPS
- VHF: Furuno FM 2610 and NEW Icom 604
- NEW EPIRB
- SSB: Furuno FS 1501 and SEA 106
- Radar: Furuno 1731 (36 mile) and Furuno 1832 (36 mile)
- Sounder: Furuno FLV-666 and Eagle
- Plotter: Furuno RP-110
- Auto Pilot: Raytheon-NECO
- Weather Fax: Furuno Weather Fax 108
In my world (software) we have the concept of "technical debt", and I think something that applies here. Plotters with obsolete cartography and antennas, everything pre-network era, and as JD said what is likely to be a problematic electrical system.
Decommissioning, removing, and filling all the holes for these items is going to be a non-trivial job. Essentially, this looks to me like one big collection of "deferred maintenance".
Passagemaker, I would say yes. An ICW trawler, no.
Maybe but a lot of this stuff is out dated and if I were to be using the boat in the middle of an ocean I would want the best possible (wit in my budget) and not two outdated items of the same thing. The SSB's are 30 years and 45 years old. The radar is a 1992 vintage and the other 1997. The chart plotter is of the 80' or 90's as is the NECO Autopilot.
The Nina was a Passage maker but I'm not booking a cruise anytime soon.
Greetings, as RT Firefly would say. I believe that you mean Sextant. A Sexton is something else altogether.
That is they way we say it and spell it down south!
We might not be able to read, write, or speak well, but we can boat all year!
That boat set-up certainly gives meaning to the word 'redundancy'. He has more of that than even a Boeing, Marin.
Greetings, as RT Firefly would say. I believe that you mean Sextant. A Sexton is something else altogether.
It's much easier now navigating with GPS, electronic charts, radar, depth gauge, auto-pilot, and VHF.
You can never be too rich, too thin or have too many electronics.
I've heard it said that 10 year old electronics are worth about 50 cents a pound.