April 05, 2000 -- It's Cool Enough For Electrical Work

April 5, 2000 -- It's Cool Enough For Electrical Work In the morning, since we knew we would be putting the Dinghy away, we topped its fuel tank, then took it for a quick spin. We headed back in, then put the dinghy on deck. Due to the central lifting point being different, we now have a pain of a time placing the dinghy in it's cradle! We thought about several different options, the best of which would be to reverse how the dinghy sits on deck. We saw another boat with the dinghy facing aft in the yard, so we went to talk with him about his thoughts on the subject. We didn't get much insight; however, we did see a good way to stow our boarding ladder! Which has been in the way ever since we got under way. Since it was cool out, we decided that it would be a good day to kill shore power and replace the panel circuit breakers for the inverter as well as replace our shore power plug. Mike took the electrical panel, while I took the shore power connection. Mike completed his work in fairly short order, making sure that each of the 30 amp breakers were on different legs. Mike did have one interruption, he had to help me get the thru bolts off the plug. After that was done, I started my work. I swapped out the plug pretty quickly. Unfortunately, the original screws were to large for the new outlet. I managed to get one side in, but not the other. It was certainly enough for us to reconnect shore power and test our work, which was a complete success. While I was working on the shore power, we met Paula and Bill on Wave Dancer. They are tied up across the finger pier from us. They went to pull e-mail and showed us one of them when they got back. It turns out that they know Eric and Susan on Ellysia. Eric and Susan recommended that they "look us up". As it turns out, they were indeed looking up at us (their exact words). We invited them to come over tomorrow morning for the net to contact Eric & Susan, and to have cocktails with us tomorrow evening as they are headed to Vermont by plane Friday morning