Day 111, 10/28, VERY BAD SURPRISE, Electrical, little interior work , 5 hours total

Surprise

 I am usually coming to marine early morning. Today I came about 7AM and..... did not see my boat, even more, I did not see THE DOCK where was my boat docked at the marine.

 

 This what I saw when came today.

 

Usually, what I see when come to marina.

 

Try to call marina owner (no answer!?). Sure he do not answer 7AM on Saturday!

Short story - they turned dock with all boats 90 degrees :) 

 

5 minuses was a very hard for my feelings.... then I found my boat.

Second surprise - no electricity on docks

Third, boat appeared in the place where almost impossible to get out and come back. Distance from shore to transom about 10 ft. and about 3 ft from rudder to rocks. ;(.

 Had conversation with owner later during the day. He authorized me  to swap my boat and another across the dock.  Will do on the week.

But no electricity - you remember. So, I went home and pickup inverter and my LI 2.5kWh battery.

Electrical work

Inverter dry fit.

First, was first time run inverter on the boat. I did "dry" installation. Just put it on cardboard box and connected it output to wires wired a specially for it. Connected low voltage cables to battery, and started it. All works perfectly.

110V panel get lit inverter lamp and I switched input switch to "inverter". All works perfect. 

I put just one battery, so I can use only 1KW load to do not trip BMD  protection, but it was enough to run lead battery charger, lights, fan, and time to time big shop vacuum some power tools.

DC distribution panel volt - current meter.

 When I designed distribution panel I installed battery monitor screen on it, It is good, and likely in normal circumstances it will be good enough, but is does show battery current, not house loads. Means, when we have any charging current to battery, monitor shows BATTERY current, not house consumption.

I installed one more instrument next to refrigerator thermostat. Now I can see what actual current consumption on 12V circuit.

Actually, I do not proud of this solution, but batter to do it now than later.

Also did "dry fit" of battery monitor and shunt on the lead battery. And leave both battery monitor for and meter for several days and check how much charge will be lost on house battery. By measurements it looks like <10mA consumption on monitor and meter, leading to 5000 hours to drain battery (7 month about). I think it is ok to have this level of system "self discharge".

Interior. 

Front cabin

Priming ceiling slope panel to prepare it to be painted the same color as bulkhead.

Making template to do "backsplash on cabinet in front cabin.

Head

Working on cinematic of the folding door to the head (toilet).