The namesake city of my favorite saint. If you have not Augustines confessions, you should! The picture below is Flaggler College, once the Ponce De Leone grand hotel, which put the sleepy little place on the map a century ago and the reason Henry built his railroad down the east coast of Florida. Ornate is not sufficient to describe the place. It is so opulent that you need to buy a tour ticket just to see the college cafeteria which is the oval grand room surrounded by the largest collection of Tiffany stained class in the country. I used to do stained and beveled glass in my earlier years, so I was agog at the spectacle.
Our stop here included lots of provisioning to get ready for the Bahamas. Christine couldn't resist the Robinson Caruso hats made from palm leaves sold by a street vendor. We are now all set..
I am now done fixing broken things on the boat. I look forward to merely improving things that are already mostly working. The latest thing was re-wiring the rather complex setup of alternator, external regulator, and battery isolator. After an evening of study, I felt like I understood how it was all supposed to work. I am not sure how the existing setup EVER worked since there was a gross wiring error. Now corrected, we are now back to being able to charge house batteries with the main engine which saves us from having to run the separate generator while underway allowing us to do things like run the water maker while motoring. Little things that can make a big difference. We now have three sources of electricity: main engine, generator, and solar panels. Redundancy is good in an environment where thing have this habit of failing.
Now that all the major systems on the boat are working, I can start in on my long list of improvement projects at leisure. Ahh.....
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