Death Onboard!

SHIP'S LOG:

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the "death" aboard ABISHAG of House Battery #1 and even more tragically, House Battery #2, unable or unwilling to go it alone, has decided to join its compatriot Deep-Cycle heaven. Truth be told, neither has been all that well recently, though House Battery #1 has had the worse time of it. With all the charging that has been done while the engine was running, it gassed off lots of electrolytes and had to have them replaced with increasing regularity only to finally succumb this morning at about 10am. In that House Batteries were link in parallel as the House Battery Bank, #1 drew down #2 to the point that it just couldn't stand on its own. The funeral will be Thursday when they will be returned to the West Marine Store (Ft. Pierce) and replaced with younger, healthier Batteries.

I was hoping that they would have lasted a little bit longer, say until I got back to Connecticut but it just wasn't in the cards. Such is life I guess and it could have been worse. I could have been at sea. I could have been in Georgia. At least I am in a place where the transfer and replacement can be done with a minimum of fuss and bother. Still, it is a royal pain in the butt and a financial kick in the head. Thank goodness the isolated Started Battery did not join the other two in their betrayal.

Other than that little bit of nonsense, it has been a pleasant day, a little over cast but hot and humid nonetheless. I have a few more projects to take care of and do a little more reading, but on the whole it is still a pleasant day. The prospects for tomorrow appear to be more of the same. Ah, the travails of winter in Florida!