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Celtic Kiss
unregistered 		posted January 14, 2004 01:34 AM           
During one of my trips in 'KISS last summer I ran into some pretty rough stuff and my handheld fell off the side seat and landed face down in the accumulated salt spray on the floor. Fortunately I had enough sense to tie it to the boat otherwise the GPS unit would have been lost overboard. A few weeks later during my Newfoundland cruise I turned the GPS on and was dismayed to find moisture on the inside of the screen. The moisture only made an appearance if exposed to sunlight. It so happens that a friend of mine is sailing around the world right now and mentioned that he uses "Dessicant" to suck the moisture out of his electronics. Dessicant is what is contained in those little packets (like the salt packets at McDonalds) we find inside shoe boxes etc. as a measure to combat moisture. I am currently working part time at the Bay in Calgary and asked the girls in the shoe department to save me some dessicant if they can. Tonight I came hope with 153 little packets. The trick is to put the electronic device in a bag with a single pack of decissant and the moisture will be sucked right into the little pack. Neat eh?

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Robert
Celtic Kiss #2120

whited
unregistered 		posted January 14, 2004 12:33 PM           
Did you buy one of those 'cheap' Garmins :-)
My Magellan 315 is sealed and supposed to float. If you drop it overboard...turn around and retrieve it.
That would be a challenging 'man overboard
recovery'.

Canadian Sailor
unregistered 		posted January 14, 2004 03:53 PM           
It having arms would make life a lot easier.

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Canadian Sailor ;)
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you
criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

Celtic Kiss
unregistered 		posted January 14, 2004 06:42 PM           
Don:

The unit took quite a pounding when I was running in those 6 ft waves in 30 kts of wind. I remember thinking that it was going to be cracked etc. by the time I rescued it but fortunately the GPS escaped relatively unscathed.

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Robert
Celtic Kiss #2120

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