St. John's trip Day 6

So our night last night was very restful with the water lapping on the front of the boat. We anchored planning on cruising while we made breakfast and in the middle of cooking the sausage the generator stopped. The unit is high-tech with a series of alarm indicators on the unit. We searched for the generator manual with no success but jumped on the Internet and was able to call the distributor here in Florida and get the answer we needed.  I noticed as we were anchored last night there was a more than normal amount of steam coming off exhaust water exiting from the generator which led me to believe that there was something wrong with impeller or strainer. Service manager Carl confirm the alarm light we were getting indicated high exhaust temperature which leads me to believe that the impeller probably needs to be changed. Given that this will be our last night tonight we elected to skip changing the impeller and we will tie up at the dock tonight and use shore power for Air-conditioning. Today is another hot and humid day with many clouds indicating we will likely have some rough weather again sometime during the day.

This is what is referred to as a range marker. You line Up one board with the other board (in the background) and it tells you that you're in a straight line with the channel.

We didn't figure out what these turbines are used for but they appear to be wind turbines but with them located in a water outlet on the river, and it appears to have water running during given periods and maybe they lower these turbines into the water (make power maybe).

Big rain coming that we will run right through...

After we ran through the rain we continued back to Green Cove Springs, Back to where we started. Here in the marina which is an old navy yard you'll notice a large orange canister perched on the side. It is a fuel tank for the space shuttle that is destined to be delivered to a museum somewhere in the US.

We continued back to our original Anchorage and will spend the night here on shore power and continue to practice docking and maneuvering tomorrow.

Again we had another good day. I managed to keep the boat from crashing into any of the docks. We practiced and finished off the evening driving into town and enjoying barbecue and shrimp. :)