So significant, I forgot to mention it

For some reason, our radar, which has been missing in action for nearly a year now, started working again yesterday morning when we turned on our instruments departing Telegraph Harbour. No reason that I could see for the change... we didn't bump anything, hadn't been rattled around at all at that point, none of the connections were changed at all from the day before. But it lit up consistently and seemed to be working fine all day long.

I don't trust it, of course. The whole thing points to some loose connection somewhere in the radome, and if it slipped back into place, it could slip out again just as easily. I checked everything I had access to during the haul-out this year and everything appeared snug, so whatever is wrong is buried pretty deeply in the radome and would need a technician's attention. The problem with that, of course, is that it's crazy expensive to get anyone to look at the damn things, and when the problem is intermittent, you can bet that the time they happen to look at it will be the time it happens to be working fine.

We'll see how long it lasts... I have been resigned to having to purchase a new radome before any significant trips in the future, but if this holds out through the foggy season here in late summer, I may hang on to it for a while. No guarantee that a new radome would be any more reliable, after all... this one is practically new as it is (although, of course, just out of warranty).