Today my skipper turned up. I thought I had been abandoned after being taken out most weekends since I've been back in the water and then nothing. Bank holiday came and went and it appeared that this weekend too I would not see anyone.
But skip turned up and tidied up my saloon, had my engine running and gave me a once over.
My wind generator, appears to have been burnt out, according to the manufacturers Marlec and my skipper is struggling to understand how seeing as it was charging my batteries right up until the time I was taken out of the water and the device had to be lowered to enable the sling of the crane to pass over. So currently I have nothing that keeps all of my eight batteries topped up, unless of course I'm taken out with the engine running. Take today for example, skipper had it ticking over at 1200rpm and it was baulk charging at 23amps, with the volts up to 14.4v. He's been in long discussions as to whether the device is fit for purpose, bearing in mind that it's intended for us yachts in all weathers, apparently not according to the manufacturer. If it's too windy, and what level that happens to be has not been stated, my skipper has to climb up the rail to slow or stop it from spinning. Get real. But that does leave me without free electricity. Still with the way the sunshine has been, may be a solar panel or too ?
Both the G2 Gennekar and the Code 0 fit through the door of my starboard rear cabin, so at least there's somewhere to stow the sails when not required. The insulation socks and other bits for my Webasto Oil fired heater, that never seems to get finished, has also been stowed in the starboard rear cabin. Lets hope that I'm not expecting any overnight guests anytime soon then !
I understand that the 1850's house that skip and his crew live in has scaffolding up. so he's taking advantage of the good weather and doing whatever it is he needs to do. I only hope that it doesn't suffocate summer.
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