These pictures were from the moon rise the other night. It was beautiful!
I haven't mentioned the boat in a while, we had talked about doing a re-power, and we decided against it. For a number of reasons we decided to keep the hybrid system. We never had a problem with the electric motors, we just kept having problems with the generator over heating. Once we finally got that problem fixed (at the end of last summer), we decided that we should give this system the benefit of the doubt since it did get us from Florida to Massachusetts. The other reason is that we just can't afford to do it. It would be a very expensive, frivolous undertaking. The system is a good one, but for us being new at this whole "living aboard" lifestyle, whenever there was a problem we immediately pointed the finger at the hybrid system, because of course, it couldn't be that we were inexperienced??!!
So, instead we are getting a water-maker, doing some other small projects, and hopefully increasing our cruising funds. The boat is scheduled for recommission in April, and we move back on board May 1st. We will stay this summer at MacDougalls, and hopefully start heading south mid-September. Hopefully, it will get a bit warmer before we move aboard, I am getting real tired of the cold weather!
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