Day Two at Captain's Choice Dock, Aqua Yacht Harbor

This blog will chronicle our (Pat and Patty Anderson's)

cruising adventures on the Great Loop!

DAY 179 - September 26, 2017

As we were having our coffee in the cockpit, Robbie and Sam were just loading the final dock cart of Robbie's belongings. Early this morning Robbie's sale of his Carver 440 was resurrected by the buyer's wiring the 10% payment to the broker. There is still the survey and sea trial, so perhaps, as Dr. Bob suggested, Robbie is a little premature in removing all this personal possessions! My sense though is that just having completed his Loop, Robbie is very anxious to return home to Pensacola!

Promptly at 9:00 a.m., Matt from Captain's Choice arrived with our new Group 31 battery. I had already disconnected the cables from the battery we had purchased at Green Turtle Bay and re-oriented it to accommodate the new battery. Matt knew we needed an additional short cable to wire the two batteries in parallel, but said he wanted to see exactly what was needed and we would go to the hardware store. The hardware store had a perfect cable for our needs. I bought it and we went back to the marina. Matt arranged the two batteries and strapped them down, and wired the parallel cables, the boat positive cable and the boat negative cable, as well as the short cable to the inverter and another short cable to the shunt for the Victron battery monitor. I'll let the on-board Guest charger charge the new house battery bank all night and then reset the Victron monitor tomorrow!

Patty washed the laundry, cleaned all the vinyl, and took a shower. I went up and talked to Tony about their pulling me out on the small TraveLift so I could do my outboard service. I had put everything I needed for the service in a dock cart and wheeled it up. My scheduled time kept slipping though, and when he was ready to pull us out it was 3:30 p.m., and I was not confident I would be done by 5:00 p.m. when they all go home and lock the yard, so we re-scheduled for tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. and I put my dock cart inside their building. This means we will be here one more night, and probably not start down the Tenn-Tom Waterway until about noon. That should still allow us time to reach Bay Springs Lake, which has a lot of good anchorages.

The day was really hot, with the temperature pushing 90, and also very humid, clearly an evening to run our little air conditioner for the third time so we can get a good night's sleep!!

Our little AC really cools the cabin down!

I am getting anxious to get the outboard service done and get on the move again!