About the restoration of our 1980 Marieholm 261. (Formerly known as the Money Pit)
I went a little bonkers this winter… again. The relief at getting a new job and paying off the truck with my severance meant I could get a little spendy so I did. I bought an Icom m803 radio for long range communication. It’s nice, it does ham bands too so I can be ultra nerdy while in the boat. The radio my friend gave me was an older model, very big, and I never found a place it’d fit conveniently but having it solidified the idea that I wanted one so I got one.
I added a red ring locking pushbutton switch to control the strobe mentioned previously, as well as the mute switch for the Vesper XB-8000 and the alarm buzzer. I removed the old Anderson Power Poles connector now that I won’t be plugging in a ham radio there.