Up at 7 am, breakfast and Gareth was here by about 8 am. More work on the aft AC unit. Reneé took down the forward part of the canopy so she can hang laundry out to save some money on going to the laundromat. Jodie came by to get a quick tour and get rid of her excess groceries (she is flying home soon).
Gareth and his apprentice finished cleaning the aft AC unit, and have determined it needs some freon (which is type 407C and he doesn’t have it with him (neither do we).So, he will get some and come another time. The thermal overload is bad, and a new on is on order. Which means we won’t run it until we get it installed, but we bypassed it to test the unit. The above was written about noon, this turned in to a very long day. Gareth flushed all three AC units, and two out of three are working much better than they were, the aft unit also got a plumbing snake up the discharge hose for the water which improved flow considerably. At this point it still didn’t have a thermal overload. Somewhere in the process of flushing the forward unit, it stopped working. Gareth spent about 5 hours troubleshooting the problem and then moved the overload from the forward unit to the one in our stateroom as the forward one is still broken. Finally he was done for the day at about 1030 pm. A very long day for all of us. Final status, Aft AC working very well, Salon AC working very well, forward AC not working.
We headed off and got showers and went to bed.
