April 01, 2000 -- Gauges are the question of the day

April 1, 2000 -- Gauges are the question of the day Joe came aboard this morning and started performing some tests on our gauges. We lost the 12 Volt power supply somewhere! He pulled our stepdown transformers and bench tested them. They came back good, this surprised us. He then ran a temporary wiring harness down the steps to check the gauges. He wired up both the port and starboard lower helm, and they worked flawlessly, so Mike and Joe set about running the new wiring harness for both engines. Anne and Henry came over and I went shopping with them while Mike stayed and played with wires and gauges. When I got back, the wiring harness was complete and the engine gauges were about to be tested. It was a complete success, we have lower helm gauges again! Joe then started exploring how to run the second wire harness. His first thought did not work, so we followed the path of the original wiring harness. It took all three of us to get the harness down through the electrical panel. He then ran it to the lower helm and wired it up. After that, he called it a day, cleaned everything up and split. We napped, then Anne and Henry came by. We wandered around the yard with them looking at the different boats here. We returned to the boat had dinner and napped again, intending to go out. We didn't make it, since we had slept half the night by the time we woke up it was 1:30 in the morning, we watched Dick Van Dyke on Nick-at-Nite. Then went back to bed