Oki doki...we are back at the dock at Marina de Salinas. The sail from Coffin Island was a little rough because of a squall front, but sailing back from Coffin Island is usually accompanied by some big seas and the wind right on our nose...we just got so used to it that we enjoy the ride and it feels sooooo good to turn off the motor and let the breeze carry us :) The good news is that our brand-new main sail performed very well...it just needs some adjustment on the first reefing point, but Fraito from Ponce Sailing Center will take care of it when we get in touch with him. 
The not so good news is that our brand-new wind generator stopped "making juice" whilst we were anchored! We thought that the sudden lack of battery power was due to not enough wind, but we were mistaken! We found out when the wind finally picked up and there was still not much power getting into the batteries (!)...So the solar panel had done most of the work and of course we ran the engine for an hour the night before to top up the batteries and run the fridge/freezer as I mentioned in my last post. Ah well...this is why a shake down cruise is so important...at least we still have time at the dock to work on whatever is necessary! My captain did some tests today and got in touch with John from Hotwire, who recommended some more troubleshooting...so tomorrow we shall know a bit more than we know today...it will be interesting to see what the outcome will be. I feel quite helpless with all this technical talk, so I stay out of the way and offer moral support to my sweetie...and will make myself
scarce useful tomorrow by doing the laundry...isn't that exciting?
Apart from this our shake down cruise revealed all positive results :) The fridge/freezer turned on like a champ (Rick replaced the wires from battery to inverter with some handsomely thick ones before we left) and temperatures remained cool, very cool...inside the fridge and freezer, of course :) We were able to use our electric coffee maker in the morning (very important to us) and reload the batteries on our electronics (laptop, tablet computer, netbook computer, ipad2, nook, and cell phones).
On the whole my sweetie and I like to keep it simple when it comes to electric equipment on the boat...we only have the coffee maker...no microwave, fancy blender or other stuff for the galley (kitchen), because that's how we prefer it! We actually got rid of the microwave...really and truly...and haven't missed it at all :) Only recently we bought an electric mini chopper for making our own hummus...works like a charm, requires little space and little clean up :)
Thanks for listening...stay tuned...more on the wind generator saga coming soon!
