It's now our third day here at Secret Harbour Marina in Grenada and things are moving along. I took off this morning to get some money as we had little of the native currency(Eastern Caribbean Dollars). Along the way, we stopped at one of the local chandleries(Water World)where I got a few things we will need down the road and now. Late in the morning, the electrician showed up and we got to work trying to figure out why the marinas power system won't work with ours.

Dexter, alias "Sparky" checked our connections and he redid a few of them. We ran the wires from one of the power posts to the boat and promptly blew the circuits on the marina. "Sparky" walked over with me in his shadow and we checked the existing breakers. They didn't look bad but heck, you never know. We discussed it with the office and decided to get some new ones and replace the old. I, meanwhile walked back to the boat and we started up our Yamaha generator to recharge out batteries. A while later, Tracy got fed up with waiting and marched over to the office to see why they wouldn't just hook up the 220 volts and we could step it down to 110 with our transformer. They were willing to give it a shot so over came "Sparky" again and we worked with different plugs and a bit heavier wire. We found a 220 that was active and plugged it in. So far, so good. I checked the plug that came to the boat and it read 220+ volts. I plugged it into our transformer and it showed it as now being just 110-120 volts. I plugged it into the boats system and threw the switches. In just a few seconds, it blew the circuits for the marina again! It just doesn't want to play nice with Zephyr!! "Sparky" is off to find replacement circuit breakers for both the 220 and 110 systems so we can install them tomorrow. We've had to do this before in another yard(Fiji) to make it stop breaking the circuits. Meanwhile, I started up the Yamaha again and vroom, off when the charger on board merrily charging up all our systems. All the computers are now nice and charges and the batteries were almost there but it came to 1700 and we don't want to run them past that time. Tomorrow, depending on what happens, we will either have power or we will be using the generator again. None of our neighbors in the marina are concerned as I've gone to each and explained out problem. Let's just hope that they get this problem all resolved. Another boat across from us has had problems with their 110 power when they came in. Guess we will see tomorrow.

We got a notice from our credit card company that some one had charged $1.99 to our card yesterday. Not us so I put it in dispute. No big deal. Today, we got another notice that someone had charged $519 on our card using the internet. Someone had our numbers and was using them. I notified the card company and they put a freeze on that transaction and have cancelled our cards and are mailing out new ones. Good thing I'm going home so I can pick them up. It's the third time(maybe fourth) that our card numbers have been compromised since we left the US back in 2009. I used to know our numbers by memory but it's now been changed so many times, I have to look at the card. What a pain!

Meanwhile, we tackle other odd jobs around the boat making sure that we get as much done before I take off as we can. Tomorrow, I get to fix the stove. To light one of the burners, you turn the knob and push in on it at the same time. That makes the stove spark and light the gas. One of the burners has stopped sparking so I'll be taking it apart and fixing it. I did it when we were in Richard's Bay South Africa. Not a big job but necessary. I'll also be inspecting and replacing the propane sensor for the auto off safety device we have in our propane line.