Day 304 Back to Seattle one more time.

Onto the ferry by 10:20 for another trip back to Seattle.  This time to pick up the Webasto heater.  They'd called and said that she was all repaired and ready to go.  As we will be leaving Brownsville on Sunday, we didn't want to wait going and getting it.  I'll be installing it today.  We waited till the 10:20 ferry so that some of the snow would be gone.  It can get messy up here even with just an inch or two of snow.  It's not like Colorado where you get used to driving on it in the Winter.

The Webasto was another casualty of our Zephyrs wiring.  When it was installed, the electrician wired it to the "starter" bank of batteries.  This is a bank of two batteries that's sole function is to start the engines--nothing else.  When we were here during Christmas of 07, I had tried to start the engines and found the batteries dead.  The Webasto had been working alright but suddenly had died and refused to start also.  Since the "House" bank of batteries was alright at the time, it pretty much told me it was hooked up to the wrong bank.  Plus, once recharged, the heater would run.  Not like it had but at least run.  Turns out that as the "starter" bank died, the heater wasn't getting enough power to run the blower fan to push enough air through it.  The burner was still heating away but without the proper air movement, it basically fried the burner unit and caused the jets to get clogged and the glow plug that starts the heater to start shorting out.  Even after the heater was rewired, the  damage had been done and we had to replace the guts of the heater.   I'll be installing it this morning.

We had a great lunch with our son Matt.  It was great sitting down and getting caught up on what is going on.  He's been following our blog so he knows our story.  We wanted to catch up on his.  

After lunch, a quick stop to pick up another handle for our dingy.  It doesn't have enough handles to make it easy to move around.  I'll be gluing it on once the weather gets a bit warmer.

Then on to the Sea Marine store by Fisherman's Terminal.  A store that has lots of equipment that you won't find in the "recreational" boater stores.  Lots of basic equipment that is necessary but harder to find.  We picked up some pencil zincs(stops the corrosion on Zephyr) that go to the engine and a zinc that attaches to the Max Prop.  A MUCH heavier one than what I had purchased from Max Prop last year.  A lot more zinc for a lot less money-- none name brand.  Since we appear to be eating zincs quite quickly, I'm always on the hunt for more.

Back to the ferry for the 4:20 trip and home again.  A clear night so down into the 20s again.

We'll see what today brings.  Maybe 40 is we get lucky.

Have a great day!