Ship's Blog

After sending out the last post we weighed anchor and moved to the western end of St Georges harbor. Surprisingly we were the only ones to do so considering that 30kt winds were forecast for the evening and next day. Safely anchored near the weather shore we spent the better part of the last two days in very calm water occasionally looking at the east end of the harbor through field glasses and watching the boats anchored there bouncing up and down in the wind driven waves.

One of the big chores accomplished while anchored was the refrigeration problem. Shortly after departing St Augustine our refer went on the fritz and we had to turn it on and off manually to have any refrigeration, a real pain in the ass not to mention the inefficiency. When we bought it we purchased a very expensive “Smart Controller” which has since become very stupid. Yesterday morning I broke out the schematics for the refrigeration and after studying them for some time I came up with what I thought would be a good work around until we could get the dumb controller’s brain repaired. I spent the rest of the day tearing apart the pantry so that I could get to the unit and rewire the compressor so that it would work with a simple thermostat. At the end of the day when we turned everything back on it worked like a charm and we are now free from manually operating it. Cocktails well earned!

We have just returned to the east end harbor after refueling and topping off the water tanks. Amazingly we are only using .36 gals of diesel fuel per hour and have only used 60 of our 120 gallons of water in the last 20 days.

Prior to leaving the west end we did a dinghy tour of the little harbor near us. Pictures below, I will also try to up load a video but the Wi-Fi service here is pretty slow so no promises.