Our American thanksgiving celebration was a great success. We had a small turkey that fit perfectly in our little oven! And the price of this turkey was less than $6 US (it was an 11 lb turkey). Jane and Steve joined us around 4pm, bringing yummy appetizers, a pecan pie and a pumpkin pie. We all ate well and were very full!!
Friday started off slowly. Mark and I were still full from dinner so we relaxed with our coffee. We spent a bit of time looking at the job list, trying to figure out what jobs we wanted to do. Sometimes you just look at the list (which never seems to get shorter) and say not doing that today. I settled on a load of laundry and then I cleaned and installed our enclosure handrails.
Mark decided to try the generator and immediately regretted his job choice. The 40 year old generator started up with no problem but Mark quickly discovered that it wasn’t making any power (it’s one and only job!). Okay he pulled out the manual for it and tried to figure out what’s wrong. Well, after a few hours of hammering, grinding and other noisy tool sounds, Mark realized the generator was dead! Not coming back from this last storage season. So the decision has been made to remove the generator (piece by piece) and replace it with a wind generator. We’ll be a very “green” energy boat with our solar panel and wind generator. We’ll also have to replace our water maker because it runs on 120 volts (which the old generator supplied). Not sure if we’ll get the new water maker this year – we’ll have to see how things go with installing the wind generator.
There’s never a dull moment living on an old boat. She has lots of aches and pains, just like her crew!!😁
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 