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<\/a>Today, Wednesday March 11th, is the first day the weather reached 60 so I went to the boat yard to start prepping the boat. However, even though the air was 60 I still had to negotiate a field of ice and water to get to the boat. Then once I got the ladder set up and all the supplies on to the boat I realized that the one thing I forgot was the key which was still at home. Since my fist project was to replace the door anyway I was able to remove the lock with some help from the service department. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I was glad that the existing latch on the boat worked with the one I bought to install on the new doors because otherwise I would have had to drill new bolt holes and try to run multiple extension cords together through a giant puddle. I also applied a strip of foam rubber to the sliding top of the companionway which works well to seal the top of the doors.<\/p>\n

Inside the boat the bilge was almost about to overflow with the rain leak(s) and some of the water was still frozen particularly around where the sump pump is. I set up a spare pump and held the wires to the battery I was going to put in to pump out as much water as I could.<\/p>\n

My next task was to install the two batteries. I had these batteries in my room all winter connected to a Guest Dual Battery Controller<\/a> for AC supply. I noticed over the winter that one of the batteries kept switching into charge mode. Then for Christmas I got a solar panel<\/a> and wired each battery to a solar charge controller<\/a> and then the two controllers together to a common input for the solar panel. When I went to get the batteries the guest controller indicated a 14 hour charge fault on the flaky battery so on the way to the boat I stopped at sears and bought a replacement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wired and strapped the two batteries into the boat along with the Guest Charge controller and the solar charge controllers when I noticed that only one of the charge controllers must have a back flow diode, as they are different brands, which means one battery was always trying to charge from the other battery. I wonder now if this helped to lead to the demise of the battery. Anyway, I left the system so the solar panel is connected to only one of the batteries at a time. Currently it is connected to the new battery as that one may not be fully charged.<\/p>\n

I also filed the paperwork to have the boat put back into the water the week after Easter. Before then I still need to install the radios, the outboard motor and fuel system, find and fix the rain leaks, clean the interior and put the cushions back. Among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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