August 15, 2014  Punta Gorda, FL  77 -88 F Hot and humid…

Rain storm hit last night. Actually, this is summer in Florida so it storms every night. Last night I got a couple of photo shots. Let’s see how they turned out. Not too bad. Not awesome but pretty darn good for a phone camera. The last looks like the light overwhelmed the camera sensor. OR the Terminator just arrived

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Want to know what we have been doing for the first 5 days on board? The first two days were spent with Captain Dana, Mermaid Charters. She helped introduce the boat systems to us. How much to tip the holding tank fellows when they come. Marine life. We will continue training with Captain Dana after we get settled and are ready to move the boat.  The rest of the time we were learning how to get on and off the boat.  More on that later.  Learning to walk sideways along the outside of the boat.  Cleaning.  Learning our way around Cape Coral and Punta Gorda.  Getting used to EDT.

We turned on the power. Captain Dana went over the electrical panel. We have a DC panel and an AC panel. The first thing we did was turn on the Air Conditioners one by one. There are 4 aboard for the 4 different areas on the boat. We finally got 3 working adequately after tripping the dock-side circuit breaker several times. The Harbor Master was called concerned about the breaker. Turns out the breaker on the pedestal ( upright post that holds the utilities, water connections, etc. ) was bad. After it was changed out, we stopped tripping breakers! Yea! Cautiously, we only ran 3 AC units and no water heater to be safe. Who needs a hot shower in the summer, anyway?

The fancy electric toilet only flushes. The fancy part of it is broken. At least we have a toilet!! A marine AC/Plumber/ Electric toilet expert is on his way next week with replacement parts. Yea!  Just how far is the Harbor Master (where boater toilets/shower facility reside)?  No worries.  We have a holding tank.  We can get the ‘guys’ to come pump us out!!