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Right now I'm lying on the boat, on our homemade 4 inch cushions, in 82 degree weather. I just finished a Miller High Life, after drinking coconut milk OUT OF THE COCONUT for the first time! Jack squeezed the juice out for me after drilling through it, then he cut the nut in half with his hatchet and scooped out the coconut with a spoon for me!
The ukeleles are hanging on the wall, the clarinet is taped to the ceiling; everything has its place, as random as everything is. The pens are in the same jar as the screwdrivers as the iching cream as the nail clippers--but that's where they belong. I'm surrounded by intensely bright sunshine and palm trees, flocks of seagulls and pelicans, and songs from Steve Earle, Shane MaGowen, and The Cows (from Jack's Ipod).
This boat is equipped to the NINES!!! I must credit Jack with much of the planning, organizing, installing, and inventing that makes this boat what it is. We are running our electronics off of the marina's outlets on the docks right now, but when we are out on the water (which will be a majority of the time) the boat runs off of solar panels and the alternator on the engine. The solar panels work so well, that without having a charge controller, they would OVERPOWER the batteries. That's how badass they are! Shit yeah! So these panels are able to power a mini fridge (with a freezer and a lot of room), a fish/depth finder, a microwave (which, without marina power, can be used with a 1000 watt inverter), a computer, digital camera, VHF radio, fan, radar detector, and radio (which we run our Ipods off of and the XM radio)---we are HOOKED UP!!!