We arrived without a hitch to Ft. Lauderdale yesterday. (Well, there was a close call when the 3 year old behind me coughed right into my face, but my spouse was able to disentangle my fingers from around the little tyke's throat---but if I wind up getting sick, I will hunt the little bugger down).
After the required visits to Southport Raw Bar and West Marine we headed south.
Friday we had got a call from the marina that our alarm is going off, when that happens it's supposed to call Tim's phone, but he uh, yeah, forgot to renew the SIM card so no ringy-dingy for him.
Now the alarm can go off for several reasons, I think ours is just set up for intruder and high water. (!!!) Finally we got somebody to get on deactivate it and check to see if she's floating.
Everything is fine, so why did the alarm go off? We had several theories, but the answer actually came when we arrived on the boat.
We done got no shore power, Lt. Dan.
Evidently, somebody borrowed our hose and coiled it up and threw it back towards our pedestal-in which is clipped our shore power and knocked it loose from the adapter (we have to have a freaky two pronged 30 to 50 amp adapter to get power here--oh and not short out the marina).
So, HemiD was dead as a doornail, she had obviously been that way for awhile. Not good on the batteries.
So any apologies we felt for the neighbors possibly having to listent our Klaxon was quickly erased by a dead boat AND....even WORSE....NO COLD BEER WAITING FOR US!
However, we got hooked up kinda wrapped the cord and adapter so it can't get knocked loose and we'll work on a more fool proof solution today. (duct tape)
Merry Christmas to all!
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