Yesterday DHL said my tiller pilots, whose delivery they fouled up Monday, would arrive “by the end of day.” When they had not arrived by 3:30 in the afternoon when the marina office closes, I found a folding chair and sat outside the office, reading and checking periodically for updates from DHL, until sunset at 6 PM.
When I checked again first thing this morning, delivery was unknown. By 10:00 the package was out for delivery. Just after 1:00 it arrived. I was overjoyed, until I found only one ST2000 in the box. I ordered two.
Online again I find that the other tiller pilot is “delayed in Customs”. They are identical. Why one is delayed I do not know. Still I do have one.
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Last night I discovered that the small inverter I used to charge my MacBook and iPad was not working. I have two spares and dug one out of the waterproof box inside a waterproof bag in which it is stored. It didn’t work either, so I concluded the problem was in the wiring, which is quite simple.
However, this morning Agusto picked me up at 8 a.m. to drive into Colon to buy $540 of material for the cradle. We were supposed to do this yesterday morning, but he didn’t show up until late afternoon. Three hours round trip. So I couldn’t go over the wiring until after I returned at 11.
To get to the ship’s batteries, two Group 24 Lifeline AGMs, stowed beneath the v-berth, I had to untie and remove several bags. When I did, the problem was obvious. The head of one of the battery terminal bolts had completely corroded away, along with end fittings on two wires. Fortunately I had the necessary spares and charging has resumed.
Perhaps with the material purchase and scheduled delivery later today, action will begin.
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I tried to upload a six minute video shot at 1080p to YouTube but cancelled when the estimated time remaining to upload was given as three hours.
As I have mentioned before, I’ll upload when I can, but have no idea when that will be. Probably not until I’m back in Evanston.
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I thank Rob for a link to an article about the value of push-ups.
I don’t ever recall advising that you do as I do. But perhaps you should.
