The last video up on the hard (Patreon)

Hi Guys! 

This week's video is the last video I shot before leaving for Michigan. I had three wonderful weeks in Michigan with Ava and her family, completely devoid of sweating. Best Christmas gift ever! ;)

Ava and I are both back on the boat in Trinidad now. We splashed earlier this week, and now everything is a mad rush to get ready to leave. I have tested the new thru-hull for the air conditioning. It works! We have air conditioning. We won't need that while anchoring, but it will be really nice in marinas. That brings me to our subsequent discovery. We can't connect to shorepower. This means even though we now have oh glorious air conditioning, we can't use it. Do'h! One step forward and one step back ;) The issue is that we get a nominal 125V (measured to be 128-129V) on the dock, but after feeding that through our isolation transformer to step up the voltage, we get 280V. The isolation transformer is designed to take 115V and bring that up to 230V, but because the input is nominal 125V, we end up with a much higher voltage on the secondary side of the transformer. The Quattro (inverter/charger) won't accept anything above 265V. So we can't get shorepower. There are a couple of ways to get around this, but we'll save that adventure for next week's video ;) 

Today's big goal is to go through all our crap (brought back from the US) and get everything squared away, and I'd like to get our engine service out of the way :) 

I hope you're having a fantastic (and not sweaty) weekend :) Thank you so much for your support!