Sunday, 3 August 2014

Sydney Boat Show

Last week we looked at the weather we've been having up here in Port Macquarie and it hasn't been bad and we probably could've kept going up the coast last week but we decided we'd go to the boat show instead.
It's always nice to see what new things are available and we want a new VHF radio that has AIS built in so we took the train down to Sydney on Thursday and came back yesterday.
Stayed with Dave and Nat on Thursday and Friday night and spent the whole day walking around the boat show on Friday.  They're rebuilding the Sydney Convention Centre so they had the boats outside in Darling Harbour as per normal but we had to take a ferry to Glebe Island where they had all of the inside stuff in marquees.
As usual we saw things fitted to boats that look pretty good and this is an example that might make it's way on to our boat. So simple.
Didn't get the fixed VHF radio that I want but we now know where to get it from and which one to get.  We did however buy a handheld VHF which has a 10km range.  Always good to have  spare and most of the time we'll be within 10km from the coast anyway.

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