A Quiet Hero

On Saturday help and encouragement arrived in the form of Ken. Planning had been done, devices and parts ordered, 2 new special AGM, deep-cycle marine batteries arrived and some prep had been done. Today was the day to test and install new electrical. 

This boat, in my time, has never had a working electrical system, though the “bones” were there. A switch box, navigation lights, etc. We have been using temporary, battery-operated lights to be within regulations but the cabin has never been lit and if phone (and therefore navigation) died…too bad!

If we are going to live on the boat for days at a time (and that is the plan) we needed power for charging, for cabin lights, for C-PAP, for the new-fangled GPS/depth finder, etc. We also needed a way to recharge the batteries whenever we had opportunity to be in a slip overnight and connect to shore power. 

So Sid and Ken have planned the draw we would need any given overnight and all the equipment. Saturday turned out to be mostly strategy for the order in which to install and connect everything, but some things are installed. 

This is a poor photo of the shore charger (yellow) and the solar panel controller (small with blue buttons)

Thanks Ken!