I woke up at 5 am to a small disaster. It was dark, too dark on the boat, there should have been some glow at least from the anchor alarm and power boards. Our anchor light at the top of the mast wasn’t even on. Nothing was operating, the fridge, cold box and feezer were all off. The Enerdrive system was flat. John got up and started the genset with the emergency parallel switch and slowly power seeped  back into the batteries. After a short while we were able to start the fridges again. We couldn’t work out why we had run out of power. Doug came over and we spent 4 hours trying to diagnose the issue.

 It seems the start battery for the engines is failing and draining the power out of the house batteries.

Meanwhile the hunters and gatherers from Nyeki had  been out catching flathead  and flounder, doing a lot better than us.

Well after the mornings electrical session Doug and John were thirsty, so we jumped into our dinghys and headed up Snapper Creek to the Tin Can Bay Yacht club. The fare was good but a little overpriced for what we received.

Following lunch and beers we dinghied  further  up the creek past plenty of  moored boats to the marina and filled the jerries with diesel and unleaded for the dinghy motor. Sandra and I sneaked 80 litres of water in jerries while no one was watching. We need to unpickle our water maker and get it going again. It will mean we wont need to carry so much water either.

Tonights fare was Irish stew, Johns favourite, the Mulligans are Irish, what can you expect!