Flotsam and jetsam
Sam Llewellyn is editor of The Marine Quarterly, www.marinequarterly.com, and author of nautical thrillers. Four years ago he bought a Corribee on eBay
Corribee refits are not exactly a chandler’s dream. Once you have made the interior habitable and the exterior seaworthy, and had a look at the sails and the spars, and renewed the standing and running rigging, and put on a winch and some jammers from eBay, that’s about it. But it usually seems like a good idea to take a wander round a boat show just in case.
Electronics first? No updates needed. We are very happy with the current state-of-the-art dedicated onboard system, ie a Nexus 7 in a Ziploc bag running Navionics – the Nexus, not the bag. MemoryMap, a similar app,…
