December 5, 2009

After breakfast at Pepe's, we looked into the electrical gremlins. We found why the autopilot etc shut down. One of the captains sleeps in the quarter berth next to the battery switch. When he rolled over, he shut down the batteries.
While we were sailing down here and found the batteries low, I asked the captains if the refrigeration was on. "No!" Tied to the dock in KW, we found it had been on the entire trip. Refrigeration drains batteries quickly.
I'm not one for finger pointing but it seems our electrical problems can be traced back to the "Captain Gremlins."

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