Category: 2021 – 2022 Season 3

Up at 7:30 breakfast, the net and bible reading.

Then Reneé headed off to do laundry, and I started into replace the control panel for the generator. This MIGHT be the reason it doesn’t run, as one of the switches pushed through the face of the circuit board that is the control panel. The following is a text I sent to some of my engineer friends to express my frustration.

“Hey, what follows is a rant. No action required, just thought I would let you know what I am dealing with. I am working on our generator. As usual, I really hate engineers who design without a thought to maintenance. I am in the process of changing the control panel. The instructions are pretty straight forward. One thing of note, the old control panel grounds the coils for the relays, the new one powers the coils. There’s at least 8 fuses in this setup. 6 in a fuse box that is mounted to the side vertically (vs on the bottom with the fuses visible). The screws that hold the control panel on go to nuts that are NOT captive, and are almost impossible to reach. So, of course I dropped 2, further disassembly required.”

Reneé got back to the boat about noon, and I was still getting familiar with exactly what I was looking at inside the control box of the generator that I had to rewire.

By 4 pm I was done working on the diagrams and pictures to understand what needed to be changed. We walked out to Ciao’s restaurant to see about church on Sunday and then took the bus to Cavernita’s restaurant for dinner. Renee’ had a stuffed potato, I had ribs. Then we walked back to the boat. We stopped at the store and got a container of ice cream.  Then back on the boat we got showers and watched the first half of the movie TRUE LIES.

We moved kinda slow this morning, after a late night playing games with friends.  We went through our regular morning routine then asked “Now what?”  Chava (the stainless guy) came for his money.  He installed our repaired swim ladder and it’s beautiful!  Neil worked on transferring movies from a friend’s hard drive and I made potato salad.  Eddie came with a friend to clean the electric winches.  We decided to look at the salon and fwd stateroom AC units and it’s a good thing we did!  They were filthy! We got them cleaned.  Next…pool and happy hour!

No pictures today.

 

Up and breakfast, and Reneé off the boat at 8:30, headed to Refuge of Hope to listen to the kids read for a couple of hours.

A couple of days ago, I heard that there was internet (wired) at the dock. Today I got it setup! This is 5 Mbs download for $1 US per day. While not incredibly fast, it will allow me to set up the software so I can check on the battery charger and solar panels on the boat while we are in the states. If there is a problem that I can’t resolve remotely, I can have someone down here fix the issue once I see it.

The woodworker showed up at 10:30 as promised. So, that is progressing well.

As we had planned we met with Curt and Jill from S/V Namahana and John and Jace from S/V Arcane and played Mexican Train and had hors d’oeuvres. Afterwards we stopped by with Curt and Jill and borrowed “some” movies to copy to our hard drive (slightly more than 3000 movies).  Then showers and bed.

Up and breakfast and off the boat 8:30, catch the bus to get to church for the Bible study, then after wards go to the pool/pool party (the ladies swim the guys play pool). Reneé made cinnamon rolls and we had them for breakfast then again at the Bible study. Afterwards, we walked to a restaurant and had lunch and then to a store and got some beer. Then over to Bob and Iris’s house for the pool party.

I played Mexican Train with the ladies after they were done swimming. Then back to the boat, and see the finishing touches done on installing the solar panels on the arch. I will get better pictures tomorrow with the sunlight.