Every day, a little bit closer

   Very close now.

Started off the day with a man, on a crane, up our mast. For $80 they went up and retrieved the main halyard, ran the spinnaker halyard, and inspected the mast top. The good news is everything up there is in great shape. no lose strands, no bird-caging, everything looked great he said. The wind was blowing nasty, so we decided to night over here. They will un-step the masts for $350 next year they said. AWESOME.

   Before the sun came up, and before anyone else was up i installed the battery selector switch.

I removed the dead battery, and got a new 200AH deep cycle. At 100# its not light, but i got it out of the boat without help. Carried the new one to the boat, and stopped at the cockpit. Tomorrow, we will have two house battery's, 400AH. Translates to roughly 2 KWH of power we can use without damaging the batteries.


   Tomorrows projects? Install the clutch for the jib furler, move the radio to the cockpit, move the new battery from the cockpit to the bilge.