Back In St Lucia

Juniper
John and Sally
Thu 21 Jan 2010 12:36
14:04.458N 60:56.936W
 
Back on board after a great trip back to the UK, albeit a little cold!
 
One or two technical issues have been serviced or fixed and we are ready to go today to Martinique - 24 miles to the north.
 
Our major tech problem was that one of our batteries "cooked" when we powered up. Very nasty smell in one of the aft cabins on morning one. Having investigated left socks or something crawling in and dying, discovered one of the domestic batteries had boiled. Had to wait for it to cool before I could move it (24hrs!!) so a slow job. And those of you that know boats will also know that batteries can be located in impossible positions plus they weight 50kilos.
 
All that fun now over and off we go. 28 degrees with wind from the East at 15-20kts.
 
John & Sally