Monday April 11, 2011

Miami skyline



Lat 25 40 63; Long 080 09 76; engine 687.48; 158 gallons

Left No Name Harbour this morning about 10:30 and started the cruise up the ICW past Miami. Lucky we decided to wait until Monday to undertake the trip because unlike yesterday, there were very few boats on the water. Lots of bridges, most of which I could get under but a few that I had to wait until they lifted. Lots of buildings and homes along both sides of the waterway - big homes. Saw a few cruise ships getting ready to depart for whereever.

Am having a problem with my Xantrex inverter/charger. The inverter is working fine, but the charger keeps cutting out after about 5 minutes of running. it charges the house batteries. The normal battery charger charges the start and windlass batteries Need to get it fixed because it makes anchoring out difficult if I can't charge the house batteries. So we spent a bit of time phoning Xantrex and Nordic Tug and apparently there is a service depot just north of Fort Lauderdale in Palm Beach. Looks like we are going to move north up there in order to get this fixed as Xantrex thought it was a circuit card gone. Nordic told me that I could top up the house by switching the parallel isolator to on and it would put the house batteries on the same circuit as the start.

Brenda and I went down to the pool at the Turnburry marina and had a great afternoon reading and swimming.