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Oscar
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Initially Posted - 09/28/2004 : 01:07:22

Lady Kay (III) came with a now obsolete Garmin C-180 chart plotter. It uses G-charts which are very expensive and after November will no longer be supported. It is to be replaced by something more up to date, but I was going to mount it below as a backup, and to feed position data to the VHF. But I digress......

When shorepower is plugged in, there is a handy clock on the microwave. To set it you push "clock" the time and "start". To cook something you push "time" the time and "start".

Did I mention that we "hide" the gps in the microwave when we leave the boat?

Oscar
C42 # 76 "Lady Kay"
C250 # 618 Sold and settled, awaiting transfer of command.
http://www.woodenshoemusic.com/C250WB

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tmhansen
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 03:42:15

How long did you cook the GPS? I assume it does not work anymore? I do think that takes blunder prize this month. Sounds like the kind of thing I would do.

Edited by - tmhansen on 09/28/2004 03:44:45

MattL
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 09:00:26

Oscar, you are a brave man starting this post. I never make blunders like that

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 09:07:15

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Oscar
 "...Did I mention that we "hide" the gps in the microwave when we leave the boat?"<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

We only "hide" paper towels in our microwave on the boat and so far (knock on wood), we haven't lost a roll.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 09:45:46

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">How long did you cook the GPS? I assume it does not work anymore?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

After about thirty seconds I noticed that the cabin was fillling with smoke......the reason I was pluigged in to shorepower was to test the AC portion of the water heater I had just installed. So, this was the first place I looked for the source of said smoke. By the time I figured out what the hell was going on we were approaching 45 seconds to a minute.

No, it does not work anymore.....

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Oscar, you are a brave man starting this post.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Yeah, but I know you all will get a good laugh out of it, so I feel obliged to share....

Oscar
C42 # 76 "Lady Kay"
C250 # 618 Sold and settled, awaiting transfer of command.
http://www.woodenshoemusic.com/C250WB

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 09:49:01

Thank God you didn't hide your flare gun in there!

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RichardG
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 10:58:09

Did it taste like chicken?

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At Ease
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 12:05:46

As I tell all my flying compatriots when we do something dumb, but no real harm..."If that's the worse we thing do in an airplane, we are in good shape." Same applies here.

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 13:23:07

Here ya go Oscar. This should do the trick:

Dear Garmin Factory -

I left my GPS laying out in the sun and all of a sudden it just melted and stopped working. You should have better quality control. Please send me a new one.

Your friend,

Oscar 

Steve

Edited by - Lightnup on 09/28/2004 14:35:39

nate
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 17:49:06

Hey oscar, do you have any good coordinates, I mean recipies, for microwave pizza?

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 09/28/2004 : 21:35:53

Well, you did say it was obsolete...

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