A pause in paridise

After another lazy day in Marigot Bay (hehe that rhymed) eating beautiful fresh passion fruits and swimming around the lagoon we headed the final short distance north to Rodney Bay. This is as far north as we are planning to go until Hurricane Season is over and done and I am very happy to finally be at this point. We have booked in for three nights, looking realistically to stay until at least Tuesday before the toodle on south. It's an exceptionally well stocked marina with all facilities needed and Jarvis has even spotted a huge hardware warehouse that can be seen from the boat that he is itching to check out!

So now that we are all tied up, have power, water and all the other 'luxuries' that we had before so taken for granted and had a full night of enjoying sleeping without any rocking (a serious novelty) it is time to get back to business on the maintenance side of things..

There are currently two core problems causing drama on Croc Bones:-

1. The Bow Thruster. It is completely non functional - one day it worked and then.. nada. This made for some pretty excessive 3 point turns in the marina when we arrived! We could live without this mainly anchoring everywhere for a while but we will need it by the time we get to Columbia and best to do it while the boat is not moving.
2. A bigger problem...our batteries are being funky. That is to say that they are not charging fully, despite what the battery monitor is saying, and then are discharging at twice that rate! It is getting worse quickly and is now to the point of needing to charge them for at least 3 hours a day even when we are just on anchor and not using the autopilot (our biggest power drain)

Jarvis man-mechanic to the rescue... hoping to come back to you all with good news tomorrow.

In the meantime check out the 'Maintenance Jobs' section of the site where we are starting to put down all the back dated maintenance 'fun' we have had along the way. This includes all the costs, overspends, and solutions we found and will be being updated by the man himself as we go.  The first section is now up and at'em and the developments of our progress up to where we are now and beyond, will be coming regularly!

So, whilst my lovely mechanic gets his fixing skills on, I intend to finally cave in and *gulp* ... clean, wash and the like. But hey, when your washing pile becomes this big...

... maybe it's time!

Tia and Jarvis, Over and Out