Today was just a nice day on the ICW. It was cold in the anchorage here at Cocoa Village but not like the last few mornings. Once the sun came up it warmed up nicely. We rode the afternoon without our sweatshirts! The winds were calm and the dolphins entertained us the entire day. At Green Cove Springs we had to have our generator repaired. When we pulled away from their dock it was purring like a kitten. The next few nights we stayed at docks with electric so had no need to use it. Our first night at anchorage it was time to fire it up and nothing happened. I flipped the switch and nothing. Tom spent the entire evening trouble shooting in the engine room with no luck. Thank goodness we have the inverter. With intermittent use I could keep my frig cold. Today Tom called two friends with boats to trouble shoot. After gaining a new list of ideas he was ready to tackle it again when we reached Fort Pierce. We arrived at the anchorage early afternoon and Tom took his list of suggestions and crawled down into the engine room. The last idea was to jump start the generator with the engine starting batteries. Good news, they started!! Bad news we have two bad generator batteries! UGH. Thank goodness we had two extra batteries that we had brought with us this time. We spent the next hour switching out the batteries and now have a working generator!!
Although we get our fuel in Fort Pierce on our trips up and down the ICW because fuel jumps up a dollar or more a gallon about 15 miles South of here and like to anchor here we have never spent time exploring Fort Pierce. We decided that is a must on our return trip in the spring.
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