It has been an exciting few days of new purchases aboard Crimson Kathryn. With the death and removal of our generator, we had to make some decisions about how to replace the power loss. As I mentioned earlier, the generator was needed to run our water maker. So if we wanted to make water (which is super helpful in the Bahamas), we needed to buy a water maker that runs on 12 volts (and not 120 volts).
On Wednesday (yesterday) Mark placed an order for a new wind generator and our new 12 volt water maker. This water maker will run off of our house batteries and will make 1.5 gallons of water/hour. It’s quite a change from our old one which made about 30 gallons/hour. But the old one was super noisy and needed the generator. This new one can run all day on the batteries while the wind generator and the solar panel recharge what goes out.
Also on Wednesday, we picked up our new spinnaker from the sail loft in St. Augustine. We really loved our old spinnaker and enjoyed running downwind with it. Our new one looks good and might be slightly smaller (which is not a bad thing). It’s mostly white with red and blue. It’s really hard to tell until it’s full of wind. I’ll take photos when that happens!!
Today (Thursday) we did a big drive down to Fort Lauderdale with our car full of our v-berth mattresses. We decided it was time to replace these 40 year old cushions so our guests would have a better night’s sleep!! The company that is making our new mattresses seem great. They took our old ones as templates and will garbage them for us! Our new mattresses should be ready about Dec. 16, well before the Dec. 23 arrival date of Evelyn and Caroline. We also bought a new house battery on our way back in Stuart. All in all it was a very good day but after 11 hours of driving, we are both pretty tired!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 