Very windy today!
After a leisurely start, we cracked on with fitting out the bridge deck and moving the batterys. By lunchtime, conditions on board were becoming untenable though! Must have been F8 or even F9 in the strongest gusts, the river was rough as hell and even on the inside of the pontoon we were getting bounced around like anything.
After adding an additional spring on the bow (to stop her swinging round into Nordestrevans bowsprit if the bow line broke), we abandoned ship and headed up to the pub for lunch and a pint.
By mid-afternoon things had calmed down a bit and we were back at work re-configuring and re-routing the wiring to the main battery which is now in its new home. We finished hooking the electrics back up in the nick of time just as the sun was setting. The new bilge pump switch has been installed and tested so we shouldn't have the problem of the cockpit well filling up with water again.
The No.1 battery is now fully charged having been on charge since yesterday afternoon. Although the indicator on top was still green, it took an initial charge of over 10A and the best part of 24 hours to drop to the minimum 2A charge. We could do with a better, more intelligent, charger but the one wot we've got will do and hasn't cost me anything.
You won't be surprised to hear that the day ended with a trip back to the pub for grub and beer!
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