Up at 7, breakfast and bible reading, we planned to do the net on the handheld radio but it got on the wrong channel, we heard part of the net but not all of it. Anyway, we took our laundry in to get it washed today, we met with Ivete to get the new cover for our dinghy, and then I headed over to the fish market to meet up with the lady from Vallarta Marine who is bringing the switch. She is supposed to be there between 10:30 and 11:30, I called her a bit after noon, and found out she was running late. Reneé and I went to lunch at the La Cruz Inn then I headed over to the marina office to meet up and get the part. She was there about 1 pm or so. I am not complaining, if I had gone by bus I would not have gotten the part any sooner, and it would have been an ordeal on the bus. By the time we had the part the laundry was done, so we went back to the boat, only one trip ashore. We think we have too big of an outboard for our dinghy. More on that another time. When we got back to the boat, I took a nap, then we went for a swim, finally about 4 I started working on the switch, finishing up by 5 pm, tested good! This feels great!
Electrical systems on the boat are all working! The solar is charging to 100 % so we don’t need to run the generator daily. We only need to run the generator to run the washer, the water maker, the air conditioning (makes no sense to run the generator to run the AC, so that doesn’t happen) or to heat the water for dishes/showers. We limit our showers to every other day, so that means we run the generator every other day for about an hour. We will see how that goes. For the dishes, if we don’t have hot water in the tank, we heat it on the stove.
Tonight, we are going to celebrate and watch a movie!
