Up a bit later than normal, no particular reason, we just slept a bit longer than normal. Today is a day to clean and work on the boat. Reneé washed the fenders (these are the inflatable cushions we hang over the side of the boat to keep us from scratching the hull on the dock), After that she made cookies.
I installed the DVD player again! It still did not work, I tried everything I could think of I verified that the HDMI cable and the TV worked by hooking up the Apple TV to it and seeing a picture and hearing sound. But no sound out of the DVD player. So, I called tech support and spent about an hour not getting anywhere. About the time I had given up it was time for lunch so I cleaned up enough to get to the table. Reneé asked about sending it back. Well, we bought it on Amazon and that was in November 2021, so I was not very confident. But said I would try. This time when I called Alpine support, I went to Customer support instead of Tech support. This guy spent about another hour trying to get the DVD player settings to get sound to the TV. We failed. So, he sent me an email and two weeks before we are going back to the states, he will send a new one where I ask him to and I will have 3 weeks to get the one I have back to them or have to pay for the new one. Certainly can’t ask for more than that!
So, I cleaned up the mess from the DVD job, and then went after the supports for the cockpit table that are bent. When those were replaced (yes Reneé helped with that), I was pretty much done for the day. About this point as she was making cookies I heard a strange sound from the water pump. This sound means that the tank was empty. OOPS!
This meant that at 3 pm I started filling the water tank. It is coming up on 9 pm now, about 200 gallons so far. The tank holds 260, and it has been a while since we emptied it.
I talked to my uncle for an hour or so. He lives alone and it worries me a bit. Nothing I can do about it, but keep him connected as well as I can. He has a new computer (a Mac mini), and Apple support is available, but he hasn’t called. About half of our time was spent working on getting him to call for Apple support.
Well we finished filling the water tank about 9:30, about 210 gallons, so the tank was not completely empty. Now that we are finished with that we can turn the A/C back on. It is not so much to cool the boat down as to dry it out. It is 82 degrees and 65% humidity outside, and 82 degrees and 54% humidity inside. We have three A/C units in the boat, a 7000 but unit in the forward cabin and also in the aft cabin, and a 13,000 but unit in the main salon. Temperature is set for 75 degrees and we usually turn the one off in our stateroom overnight, as the controller is an LED unit and it is on the dimmest setting and is still very bright, and RIGHT in my face where I sleep.
