Then this morning we woke to fog. Visibility was under 100m, and it did not look as though it would improve. Julian and I agreed that this was not a day we should leave port, so we had the first enforced day ashore of the entire season.
We caught the bus into Skibbereen, and went to look in the chandlers there. Julian had done some checking on the internet for replacement chartplotters, and since they had the most appropriate one, an EchoMAP CHIRP 45dv in stock I talked Julian into buying it. He was happy with using the Navionics charts on the tablet, but I prefer the Garmin charts, and now we have both again.
Back on Robinetta Julian installed the new device. It only has one NMEA 0183 port so it won't drive the tiller pilot yet and the cable had to be replaced as the connector is different but thanks to the work he did rewiring this spring it all worked first time. Luckily Garmin haven't changed the position of the screw holes for the mounting bracket so Robinetta has no new holes in her.
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