Dana and I took a field trip to the USCGC Buckthorn on Wednesday to visit a friend on board who was willing to help us with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) mapping. While we were there we got the grand tour and even got to pull the ship's horn! All silliness aside it was a very serious session of planning and going through the different scales of maps to choose which size and which number we would order from the oceangrafix website to then cut and laminate. We will use these maps to navigate our way around in case our GPS goes haywire. As in the book I am reading about sea kayaking says, "when they (satellites) run out of batteries, you had better be able to revert to the old ways." You never know, right?
Oh, we were contacted by the National Red Cross chapter who would like to do a story about us. They said they would be in contact with us at the end of April...interesting.
That's all for now....
Sean
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