THE BIGGEST LIST FOR OUR BOAT EVER

One of 4 stabilizer fins

Our 2019-2020 list was long, detailed, demanding, time consuming, sometimes frustrating then rewarding, exhaustive and finally "get us off this dock please"!

We wanted to save money by doing work ourselves preparing to install the 4 fins for the stabilizers and Paul did a lot of preparation down in the engine room. We travelled down for almost 3 weeks in July (hot!!) to get this done. The major work was to be done in November when we were to be hauled out of the water.

In November when our boat was hauled out we got a few things completed that boats do when getting hauled out of the water.
Underwater lights, bottom painted, tuned up the props, rebedded a couple of cleats, changed all the zincs, had gel coat touched up, replaced the seal in one of the transmissions. 




We installed another solar panel and charger. 

We had to have an expert come and look at our davit Quick Lift to bring up our dinghy to the top deck. It is hit and miss whether it decided to work or not. We had to purchase a new rotation motor. 

We took off all our Led Acid batteries (1,100 pounds) except for our start batteries.  We added on 225 lbs of lithium batteries. This is a major job and major investment. We can run the davit off the batteries. Before we had to turn on the generator to move that thing! This will be a new world of boating for us this season. 

Some of the lithium cells, Paul made the connections and box

Our stateroom's air conditioning was not working and to replace it with the same unit was going to cost too much. We decided to go with a unit that we can run off our batteries. A smaller unit but does just fine. Paul bought it online and installed himself which,

 if you know Paul this is not a surprise. 

We had a custom-made stainless steel stand-up post/handle for our dinghy. Paul can drive it with his new tiller extension. This is great when we go fast and can stand up and read the water. 

There is a Flat Stanley in Paul's hand. A school project for our grand-daughter. He had to travel!

Paul changed all the oil in the engines! Need I say more?

And filters!!

We fixed our windless to bring up our anchor. This had to go to an outside source to get cleaned and fixed. Our windless was working but slow motion. This is very annoying going down and up. Plus, what happens if it fails while anchor still in the water? This had to be taken care of before we leave again for the blue waters of the Bahamas. 

While we were coming in to dock a few days back our reverse on Starboard engine failed. (See a previous Post). We are now waiting for a sensor before we leave for Bahamas. Time Out is ready to get out of here. I would love to post blue waters on the next post or something more exciting than this post.

Soon this blog will be dedicated to blue waters and me swimming with the pigs again? Stay tuned. Thanks for reading and following our adventures, good, bad and sometimes the ugly.