Hanging Out

This is the dinghy dock that we use. When we are anchored out we often just use the dinghy to come into shore but today we had to come in with Summer Snow. We had to come into the marina because of an electrical problem with one of our battery banks. Bank 1 was totally dead this morning and it should not have been down that far. We alternate banks each day and charge them every other day when anchored out. This has worked fine in the past but Brock and I are anchored out more and are using more electricity with both our computers running every night (Brock doing actual work and me on Netflix). While in the marina we plug into shore power so the duel bank charger takes over and should put them both up to the max. Tomorrow I will check each battery individually to make sure we don't have a bad cell or something.

Sue and Craig Donahue who used to be in Corny are here in West Palm Beach. We got together via email and phone today and they are also looking for a weather window for crossing to the southern Bahamas. They have a professional routing service that is generally very accurate in selecting the best weather window for off shore sailing. They report the same thing that we have been seeing from our weather service. The next good weather window will most probably not happen for at least another week.