When we were in the Everglades earlier this year, we had difficulty keeping the batteries charged. So I replaced all the light bulbs with LED's. (Ordered them from Hong Kong on eBay.) They have sort of a blue tint, but put out lots of light. There's 8 lights inside the boat, and I could have all 8 on, and draw less power than using one of the old ones. I also changed the anchor light to an "owl" LED. (Ordered it from Fiji--they shipped it the day before I ordered it.) I replaced the two group 24 batteries with two 6 volt golf cart batteries wired in series to make a 220 amp hour 12 volt bank. I still have a dedicated group 27 starting battery. I replaced the inefficient inverter for the laptop with a device that changes 12 volts dc to 18 volts dc instead of 12 vdc to 120 vac and then back to 18 vdc. So this trip, we have more power available, and are using less..
We left our Wolf Bay anchorage this morning and headed East. Not a very nice day--overcast with thunderstorms in the forecast.
We past a house on a barge that was being moved. Hard to see in the photo, but they had the usual house moving wheels etc under the house, and then rolled it onto a barge. It's my guess that they were anchored waiting for calmer weather to continue so they didn't crack the stucco.
Sometimes Home Depot has custom mixed paint that wasn't exactly what the customer wanted. It gets returned and then they sell it cheap.
Problem is, there's never enough of one color to finish the project.
We're anchored tonight next to Ft McRee. It was built in the early 1800's and updated for WWII. It guarded a pass to Pensacola, but didn't see any action. There's some bunkers and empty gun mounts left.
You can see our boat anchored in both this and the prior photo
There's a military base on the mainland adjacent to us. These planes take off vertically, and then rotate the wings and engines to fly forward.
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