Thank Goodness For Two Batteries

[GaryMayo]

Long work week. Sunday afternoon at 5pm locked up shop and headed to the lake. As my wife was removing sail covers, I tried lighting up the diesel engine on our 32 ketch. DEAD! Nothing, not a click. Sitting at the dock was not what I had in mind, watching the battery charger warm things back up.

Then I remembered we have two batteries. With an easy switch of a couple wires, she fired up and off we went onto the lake from our slip at the marina.

Several hours later we returned, and I unhooked the battery. No use having two dead batteries.

This winter I will do a bit of electrical work on the boat and look for the gremlin that tried to spoil my evening at the lake.

Someone with a cellphone camera was kind enough to swap images this evening.