We've set a tentative departure date of Nov 3rd,
weather permitting. I thought we'd be out of here a couple of months ago. Our
project quickly turned into a
refit and our 1-2 months of
work escalated into 4 months of
work.
The
mast had to come down, we didn't expect that because it was new but poorly installed by the PO. We've had to go through nearly every component of every system. For example, on the freshwater system the only component that we left untouched was the
water heater but we plan to replace that anyway with a
propane unit, eventually.
I installed our
solar panels last week and they're easily keeping pace with our requirements. I got 2 190 watt
panels from Sunelec.com for about 1/4th of the West
Marine price for similar watts.
Funny story there- I installed the
panels one afternoon and I was still motivated to continue the
electrical connections after it had grown dark. The next morning the "Harbor Masters" if you want to call them that showed up and welded lock boxes over all of the outlets. You see, we had all been stealing electricity from the City's light poles in the pier above the docks. I had thought that the boatyard was paying the
power bill but the city had been on the hook the whole time.
The welder came down on the
dock to inform me that he was un-plugging me permanently and I was able to tell him honestly that it didn't matter at all because my panels were putting out 3 times what my
battery charger had produced. Before I had only had electricity when the automatic lights activated at night and
lost it each morning at sunrise.
JUST IN TIME!
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