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Old 02-12-2011, 09:43 AM   #19
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RE: Battery Question

AGM's last longer and are more expensive. Plus when they die, it is a sudden death. One minute it is faithfully on duty and the next minute it is toes up without even a faint moan.

I can now report that the construction workers did not show and I was miffed. Last night at happy hour at the yacht club (don't you know) a couple of members chastised me for wanting to hire it done. We can do it, they said. So this morning I called the most vocal one...69 years old... and he said WHAT? I said WHAT? Anyway he came over and this morning we pulled the old one from under the floor of the forward stateroom, up the stairs to the pilot house, down the stairs to the salon and out to the cockpit. The new one was then piss anted back the same way and dropped in the hole.

Each of us needed bandages to stop the bleeding (baby aspirin thins blood) but now the thruster runs like new. There is joy in the house.
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