A Successful Day

Our current home port - CruisePort Marina in Ensenada

The view up our dock

Most things on a boat take at least twice as long, cost twice as much, and are three times as difficult as anticipated. But today we had two projects that took hardly any time and cost us nothing at all! 

The fridge had been running a bit too often. Not a problem here at the dock but very costly (in energy) at sea or on the hook. We have a freezer that chills the fridge via a small computer fan. It seemed like the fan was not working, so I removed the fan cover and pulled it out gently to get its info to purchase a new one. While I was doing that the fan started up! Turns out it was installed backwards and has been blowing warm fridge air into the freezer (for the past ten years I'm guessing). Problem solved! 


Our windlass (the winch that pulls up the anchor) was working intermittently. Again, not a problem here at the dock but a huge problem at anchor. Today it wasn't working so we started pulling things apart to figure out what was going on. After about an hour of going back and forth between breakers and wires and switches and miscellaneous buttons Mike took another look at the wiring behind the electrical panel. We only had our house battery turned on but the windlass was wired into the starter battery. We turned on the starter battery and voilà! Problem solved!

A good day. So we had to go out to drinks and dinner with a boat-neighbor to celebrate. We only wish all projects could be this simple.