01.53.244N / 128.55.484W – 171 miles north of the equator, last day in the northern hemisphere. Good Morning – sea conditions are calmer than most days in San Francisco Bay, which is welcome relief after the previous 2 days. 85F with 85% humidity, nice and warm – looking forward to some fall weather tomorrow. No boat drama to report on – but of course always a project. Indicative of how well everything else is working, we upgraded the pilothouse stereo system. When provisioning at Costco in Cabo, I picked up some Bose outdoor speakers. While the solar project was running at Cabo, Christine and I ran the wires from the pilothouse stereo system out to the back deck of the pilothouse, and we had the stainless welder put two mounts on our new bimini. These new speakers were a huge improvement to our happy hour times – only caveat is they are powered by our 12v car stereo in the pilothouse which will only play CDs (if you can remember what those are). We have been entertaining ideas that can make these speakers work with the sonos wireless music system we have onboard. Yesterday was the day to tackle this project. we moved the Sonos Connect from the salon system, to the pilothouse – and found the Aux in plug for the 12v stereo – now we can tap our 1TB music library while sitting on the aft pilothouse deck – not to mention the pilothouse sound quality and volume potential with both the 12v system and the Sonos Play3. Volume is key when it’s 3am and you’re cranking Larry Carlton’s “Blues for TJ”. Ships approaching from behind are going to hear the music before they see our lights – safety first. Will update tomorrow at 00.00.00N/S. [google-map-v3 width=”350″ height=”350″ zoom=”7″ maptype=”satellite” mapalign=”center” directionhint=”false” language=”default” poweredby=”false” maptypecontrol=”true” pancontrol=”true” zoomcontrol=”true” scalecontrol=”true” streetviewcontrol=”true” scrollwheelcontrol=”false” draggable=”true” tiltfourtyfive=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkerlist=”1.814,-128.998{}cruiseship.png” bubbleautopan=”true” showbike=”false” showtraffic=”false” showpanoramio=”false”]