Battery woes...

When you see this, it doesn't bode well for the day....

In order to start diagnosing the little problem we've been having with the non-charging/keeping voltage of the batteries, we had to access the batteries. Which means emptying the cockpit locker.  No wind, 90 degrees.

Oh, and due to some weirdness with the new marina's shorepower we kept blowing breakers and so we had no a/c running to cool off.

So, back to emptying out the cockpit locker. Out goes the dinghy, out goes the oars, out goes 10 tons of odds and ends, out goes the boom tent.  Then the battery box cover needs to be removed.

Tim finds that two batteries are shot, but they are new, what happened.  Still waiting to figure that out.

So the next step is to remove two 70 lb batteries, and gravity isn't on our side.  But we did it, the whole working out thing paid off for me and I was able to help heft the suckers over the side of the boat to Tim.

So, Tim will be going down for a work day to figure why two batteries went kaput, he thinks it has something to do with the alternator, and he read that in our year boat there were some things going on with the Tach on the Yanmars not reading correctly, so he bought some fancy Laser Tach Monitor (sounds like a video game to me) to see if he can get an accurate measurement.

While he was messing around with turning things on and off and scratching his head a lot, I proceeded to refold Tiny D up and get her in the bag.  Inflatable dinghies are like maps folks, once unfolded, that's the best they were ever gonna be.

Also, after much merriment and blowing the breakers on about 5 slips, Tim finally got to the marina manager and after jawing at each other got all the breakers reset. Spouse was losing his patience because everytime we called them out, we'd get a different person, none of them electricians.  Then we find out that we need a two pronged (basically the ground is removed) 50 amp to 30 amp connector, problem solved. We gots power, we've restored good graces with our neighbor, who arrived on his boat to say...is the power out. Which my job was to bat my lashes prettily and say, uh, yeah, I think a breaker blew.

So, we got the boat repacked sans two batteries which is making the Leaning Tower of HemiD a whole lot happier.