Slow progress...

Mountains upon Mountains

 We intended to stay at Porto Montenegro Marina for one week, thinking that would give us time to get all the new equipment checked out and put the boat back together.  Two weeks turned into four weeks of nonstop work!  A few days were spent just cleaning and putting things away.  And then the low water bilge pump decided to quit working.  So... at least three more days replacing the float switches and the low water pump.  Next our transformer also decided to stop working.  In Europe they use 220V power, in the US we use 110V.  So in order for us to hook up to shore power we use a transformer that steps the power down from 220V to 110V.  We contacted an electrician to see if it could be repaired and were told that indeed it could be repaired.  They told us it would take four days to repair, that was three weeks ago!!

Rainbow Surprise

 For several days the wind has been howling from the north at 45 plus knots.  When the north wind blows the air is cold.  Fortunately, we have a down comforter to keep us warm at night and a propane heater to keep us warm during the day so we have managed these last few weeks.  But hallelujah, as I write it is seven thirty pm and the transformer just arrived!  And it works!!  That is phenomenal as right now the north wind is blowing at 50 plus knots.  Fortunately, we now have our little space heater on and all is right with the world (or at least our little world).  

City of Niksickco in the distance

 Initially, when we moved back onto Talaria the solar panels were not charging our batteries.  We thought that the problem was the batteries, that they were not taking the charge.  But as it turned out the boatyard had taken a fuse out and therefore the solar panels weren't charging.  We replaced the fuse and voila the solar panels started working as they should.  Looks like we won't have to replace the house bank after all.  Super great news.

The beautiful turquoise Tara River

 Finally, all boat systems are working.  So we moved on to checking the new electronics installed by Navar boatyard.  The only issue we were having was with the new single side band radio (like a HAM radio but for marine use) and the pactor modem which allows us to use to radio to reach a station and get weather information.  There was a communication issue that after a lot of tracing wires and communication with SailMail support we finally resolved.  So... now I think we are good.  Our plan is to leave Tivat on Friday but it may be Saturday depending on the weather.  Moving on... finally!