We woke up to winds out of the North West this morning, so we pulled up our anchor and moved to a more protected spot in Horse Shoe Bend on the St. Mary's.
After that, we listened to the weather forecast, and decided to stay anchored for the day. Why go out and get beat up, when you can wait for much nicer weather in a day or two?
Anyway, we started writing up our list of things that had to be done before heading off shore, such as securing our dead lights, reviewing the contents of our "Oh Shit" (abandon ship) bag and things like that.
Since we weren't moving anywhere, I put the second coat of varnish on the teak in the aft stateroom. It is actually starting to look pretty good. Only another 15 or so coats to go!
Next we focused on our alternators. Since we can now see exactly what is going in to the batteries, we know that our starboard alternator is a high output alternator. Our port one is not. We decided to switch which alternator feeds which bank.
In the course of our explorations, we discovered that we would need to rerun the positive cables if we wanted to switch them, since they were to short to switch them around. We also discovered that we had a double negative connection on our port alternator, so we were only seeing one half of the amps that were actually going into the batteries! This explained a lot. We detached the secondary negative to the port alternator. Low and behold, we had 50 amps going into the batteries, instead of 25! Hey it may be a high-output after all!
We spent the rest of the day lounging, pulling weather faxes, and enjoying the day, even if it was freezing!