Not everything goes to plan.<\/p>\n

Job number 1 went ok.\u00a0 I replaced a breaker which was cracked but ok as a preventitive measure.\u00a0 No problems there.<\/p>\n

Job number 2 was to permanently mount my wifi antenna.\u00a0 The place I chose was just below the radar dome as the box would be protected and it was pretty high.\u00a0 I also had to shorten and fix the cable that runs from the wifi box to the antenna.\u00a0 This involved heading into the marina to buy a couple of pipe clamps and some insulation tape.<\/p>\n

The cable shortening went ok and I tested everything ok.\u00a0 Mounting the box up the mast went reasonably ok.\u00a0 I did drop a washer and a fastening bracket – the latter I was able to retreive by passing down the network cable to Helen who tied it on for me to pull back up.<\/p>\n

The first problem was the network cable was too short.\u00a0 This involved temporarily running the too short cable down the outside of the mast and using a connector to extend it using one of the spare cables I have.\u00a0 The connector I used didn’t work so I tried the one that extends the radar cable.\u00a0 Everything worked following a test.<\/p>\n

I then ran the extra cable in through the gooseneck into the cabin.\u00a0 At this point I ran into a wall of frustration.\u00a0 Nothing could I do to get the damn thing going with my laptop.\u00a0 I spent hours on it gradually undoing connectors, trying out different cables.\u00a0 I finally got onto the internet again by using our old XP laptop and bypassing our internal wireless hub.<\/p>\n

Somethings definetly up with the wireless hub or I’ve done something to it in my attempts to get things going.\u00a0 At least we have working internet so I know I don’t have to go up the mast to bring down the box.\u00a0 Now I should tidy up as we have guests coming.\u00a0 Onto which ….<\/p>\n

Last night we stopped by “Hands Across the Sea” and had more than a few drinks with Harriet and TL.\u00a0 They are on their second year of their second cruise and doing something worthwhile with their time.\u00a0 They are adopting a number of Caribbean schools and helping out – donating gear and their time.\u00a0 They say it’s not hard to find anyone who needs help.\u00a0 We left them agreeing to invite them over for dinner this evening.<\/p>\n

After drinks helen and I headed off to our curry only to find the place closed.\u00a0 Darn.\u00a0 The only thing we found open was a KFC so we had another dose of greasy chicken.\u00a0 Not what we wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not everything goes to plan.<\/p>\n

Job number 1 went ok. I replaced a breaker which was cracked but ok as a preventitive measure. No problems there.<\/p>\n

Job number 2 was to permanently mount my wifi antenna. The place I chose was just below the radar dome as the box would be protected and it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hands-across-the-sea","category-st-lucia","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}