today I came ashore and helped a buddy move to a new house. (OK, yes he is a boat buddy, but he has a house and wife who hates boats...)

after that I got my solar panel working, seems there was a very elusive short in the wiring, found it and all fixed (I hope).

I drove to Costa Mesa today (about 15 miles up the coast) to pick up a cool new stainless steel post/support thing I had made to install another new solar panel. This will be a rigid panel that will mount on the transom (back end) of the boat, wherease my current panel is flexible and rolls out on the bow (front) . they both work differntly under variuos situations, so this will be a very good addition to the system.

 also under the heading of "never ending projects" I was attaching a tiller extenstion to  (you guessed it , the  tiller,) and a big long layer of the tiller began to peel off, so I grabbed a bottle of waterproof wood glue and slathered it up, clamped the whole kit and caboodle with 6 hose clamps, and will sand it all nice and finished in the morning. hmm, didnt see that project coming when I woke up today!

Had a pot of boiled potato for dinner, added some onion and garlic, mmm mmm my favorite.and have  enough left over for breakfast.