A bit of a social day. Robert and Christine, Chris’s new in-laws, visited and we went to the golf club for lunch, with the idea of sailing on in the afternoon. After an extended lunch and much chat the sailing was never going to happen.
The trial replacement Adverc unit and diode had arrived, so I continued to investigate. I did not use the new items as the old ones seem to be working OK. I discovered that during the initial installation I had omitted to remove the original wire from the alternator output, so the alternator was supplying the engine start battery directly as well as via the diodes. Woops! Removed the offending connection and it now charges both batteries at the correct voltages.
Chris visited in the evening and handed back the borrowed charts and pilot books. Some of them are much older than I remember – may be time to re-equip!
Eyemouth harbour seemed a bit quiet compared with our last visit. The busiest thing seems to be the ice supply – filling big skips which are loaded onto lorries and vans. The harbourmaster said that they had lost 6 fishing boats in the last 18 months (I don’t mean lost at sea, they had packed up fishing or moved elsewhere).
