Ask Sail
Jul 16, 2019
3 minutes
WATER GETTING INTO COAX
Q: While inspecting behind the nav station for my spring cleaning, I discovered water behind my chartplotter and VHF radio stack. Freshwater to boot! Do electronics leak? I didn’t think so.
—Everette Gracy, Norton Shores, MI
GORDON WEST REPLIES
Last winter your region was pounded with rain, ice and snow, right? With a masthead VHF antenna or a stern-pulpit GPS antenna, water from rain, snow and ice can creep down coax cable via an exposed antenna connector jacket or seep into the jacket through cracks in,
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