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by allene222 1858 days ago
Nothing is in the bilge and nothing is unsealed. It is in a NMEA 4X/ IP67 box.

You are correct that all kind of things like WiFi, email servers, etc are unreliable. There is a ton of fault tolerant code in there now. Retries, exits to loops so they cannot hang. The ultimate backup is that if I don't get an email in the morning, something is wrong. That is why I send an email every day regardless of the conditions on the boat.

Perhaps I should write all that up as well.