last time on the lazy geckos we sailed south from the Abacos for the Eleuthera
z-- through some pretty rough conditions most of us got sick and we're more than happy once
we arrived at our anchorage it was time to get off the boat and enjoy some beautiful scenery
beaching it
the water in the Lutheran's were so much clearer and bluer than the Abacos the
weather was better as well it's neat that just 60 miles can make such a difference
we spent a couple of days at an island just relaxing and exploring the area
we really hadn't done this before it was sweet
yeah
getting ready to do our first dive off our own boat excited I'm nervous you'll be fine
yeah you're gonna dive with the wetsuit I'm gonna dive with your boardshorts you're gonna
wear you have 12 pounds of weight and I have 10 and we'll be diving right offshore we're gonna
jump out the back of the boat here there's an island right in front of us we're gonna
probably head towards the front of the boat where you from to let you get pretty familiar
with being in the water again and then uh we will check that our anchor and then there's
a reef over there that we're gonna check out see how you feel we're gonna deploy our buoy
this time it floats above you above the water and I've deployed on over string we'll see how
that little debacle goes and Trevor's gonna play around the boat with us over down there
okay acronym for sucking is but Bruce Willis right one thing we got for when we're out here
is just thingies and stuff so we not only have our dive flag but we also got one of
these and playable things that you carry with you and you can use it for a de-stress or just
diving let people know you're under the water you inflate it with your regular that's how
I hope they get huge huge elephant trunk after adjusting only keep the
bottom as far as length whatever you're ready go ahead go down
these props are great they're called max props and they fold when you're under sale we get about
one knot of additional speed once we fold them whenever we're in the water Jeremiah
will inspect everything you never know when you might have a prop or something else that needs
attention crazy so twenty nine minutes they're down there yeah my watch wasn't registering
right away 75 degree water was it did you guys see our bubbles going around yeah did
you see the nice little buoy is it a good like you could tell somebody was there oh cool dude
it really well I was a little freaked out but it's because I haven't been in the water yeah
there's like sand dollars down there and the white ones you know the dead ones and if you
touch them they just crumble they like explode in little pieces falling apart yeah but it was
cool 30-minute dive it's not bad you know back in there we've been really looking forward to
diving here off the boat and tell us a great little test good to get you back you back in
the water too you know that dream walking down a tropical beach with nowhere to be here it is
days like this stick with me I think they will be the days I always look back on with pure
joy I broke the generator let's go ask how that happened you want to tell me about that generator
I'm gonna research how to or what parts that might be and I'm gonna shoot up to John so he can throw
them in his luggage and bring him out in a week really happened was I broke it I came over here
start button to start it and then I was holding it down and my finger slipped off
and you think that by my finger slipping off it fried the system fried some type
of wiring because it got a huge current of power my finger slipped off and it kind of
tricked it like there was a problem so now it won't start I feel bad but it was an accident
don't let me catch something big keep it in there
back out it's pretty cool so what's the deal here it's not working it's popping
two different codes so when I start it it starts like normal and then shuts down
and it pops the code I'll show you what it does so here's a little control panel for our generator
you just hit start establishing communication with the control everything's good I like to
switch it down once so I can watch oil pressure as the engine starts it will start it will run up
and then you can see your cooling temperature all that kind of stuff so here's what it does the end
fault loss of AC voltage sense fault number 27 if you look in the book in the manual it says contact
a mechanic we're gonna try to get a mechanic out here but it doesn't look promising because
they're all really busy and if all else fails we will probably have to purchase a small generator
so we can charge our battery along the way what we've been doing is using our parallels from the
engine so we've run the engine and I can parallel the house battery to the engine batteries the way
I can do that is right down here so this right here are my parallel switches right now they're
both off okay so port and starboard so what this does is it parallels my port engine battery and
my starboard engine battery to the house bank so if I woke up in the morning and I have my house
bank and it was charged and my engine battery had died that would suck I can parallel and pull
energy out of the house batts and now I'm running the alternators which are charging the engine
batteries I'm paralleling them during that time sending energy over to the house bank so what I
do is I just put them on auto and what will happen is the system will look around hey does anybody
need some power and if it does need power they'll switch on automatically there we go so that's the
port one just went so that one in there with the starboard so that's what happens when they'll
parallel and they'll send some energy over to each other whenever I'm good I'm on power obviously
some off and not do it I like to keep everything separate if possible because for me I've seen so
many things go wrong when you started messing with electronics and send the crap everywhere so I just
I try to keep it off unless I have to unless I need it hardware store you go yep so right now
our batteries are all looking good run power I'll give you a kiss goodbye guys make sure you drink
some water before you go well we're out of marina we either run to 30s or I can split to 150 so this
is much splitter go to 150 amp to 101 to 30s got that this is the water comes in and this here is
the water meter counting your gallons charge you 50 cents per US gallon all right I love you right
here no luck yet we just went to one place and I talked to mechanic Ian he thinks it could be the
computer board the motherboard inside there or it could be a voltage regulator problem either way he
doesn't have the parts they had a generator one of the things the thing about doing if we can't
get the parts just getting like a Honda 2000 they had a generate there but problem is you
get power but there's two regular plugs there so I need one that I can either I can plug a
30 amp cable into like a Honda 2000 does or I need one or I need some type of adapter which
I had on the Lazy get-go as well and sold with it where it's just a plug a one end of the cable and
the other end is a 30 amp adapter there place in your boat how you like and walk around this island
lots of little cars graveyard over here we're on the hunt for 15th Street we're on 11th right
now we're going to our next spot where they say they're I doubt they'll have it but you
can stop by no luck that's okay we'll come up with another plan for now we're on the
dock and we should enjoy it it was time to wash our girl before relaxing with some sundowners
coming up on the lacy geckos Friday Saturday and Sunday is like a no-go for any type of
sticker with his F&E you guys are gonna fall off the back at one point did I break the generator
is the brushes get a little bit more wind in that sail right outside of Nassau slow sail on the way
back that's kind of like trippy I don't know have to do surgery a night out on the town in Nassau
on the way to the vet doing the final item we have to do before heading off to the Zuma
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