Thursday 28 February 2013

Busy bunny this week...


New solar panels fitted at last.
We had a great trip home from the UK, everything went as smooth as silk.  Dropped some bit's and pieces off at Mark & Mo's on the way to Manchester, but they were still in bed, lazy buggers!  Good flight and every thing on schedule.  Heaving with rain in Athens and because of the reduced visibility we got on the wrong road coming through Athens as we left the airport, well that's what I'm blaming anyway.  Plane landed at 19:00 and we came through the marina gates in Lefkas at 01:00 so not a bad trip really and the rain stopped for most of the way home.

Half the kit out of the locker.
   On Saturday evening we went to see Janet & David at "Mama Mia's" in Nidri.  They were here from Evia for a few days prior to going back to the UK.  We had a lovely evening with them plus Tony and Liz, just the thing we needed after arriving back in Lefkas at one O'clock that morning.  Unfortunately, we missed Kev's birthday party on the same night, but even for super hero's like us it's difficult to be in two places at one time, I'm sure Kev will forgive us.  The weather was glorious on Saturday twenty two degree's on the boat, the people here were pleased to see it no doubt as it seems it's been wall to wall rain most of the time since we left.

The other half is in there with Sandra.
It's been a little cooler since but not too bad.  Because of all the kit I picked up while we were in the UK I have finally got around to fitting the solar panels we bought last summer, and today I've got them all wired up and working.  I've turned off the battery charging system to see how well our current leisure battery copes with only solar to keep pace with it.  Because all the wiring in the boat was in the large cockpit locker we have taken the opportunity  to tidy it out, as you can see from the photo's it contains a huge amount of kit.  Whilst in there I have discovered the source of the Nile, well at least the source of our mystery water which is slowly filling the bilge on a regular basis.  It was a drip from the sugar scoop shower, god I'm pleased about that, it's been a real problem locating it.  Anyway we now have the outboard mounted properly as well and the decks all scrubbed clean from the brown rain which has been falling, sticks like, well you know what it sticks like!

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