First things first… Jason made me blueberry lemon pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream on top for breakfast. It’s like nothing bad can happen the rest of the day!

Right then! After an amazing breakfast we had to go work on the boat. (same thing we do every day, Pinky…) Our goal today was to get the old generator removed from the boat. You might wonder why we’re removing a piece of equipment that would allow us to run an air conditioning system and any other appliance we might want? Well… our theory is that when the boat sank, the generator part of the engine was destroyed.  The little 2 cylinder diesel was still good, so they shoehorned a car alternator onto the engine and converted it to what is essentially a diesel powered battery charger.  This would save hours on the main engine, but it’s also a very strange way to go about things and the way it was done is just odd.  Since we’re going to have such a large array of solar panels, the generator was kind of redundant and we’re definitely interested in simplifying the boat as much as possible.

We’ve been removing a lot of the wiring from the generator already and Jason had started unbolting things from the top.  Today we committed to draining all the liquids out of the engine and taking enough off of it to get it out of the hatch!

The removal of the generator was one of the major things that we had planned on removing and now it’s done! I gotta admit, I feel accomplished! 🙂 It really cleaned out the space in front of the steering shaft.  It’s a boat, so more storage is always good! We’re not sure what we will end up storing in that spot… anything from scuba compressors to cleaning supplies! At least now we have the option!