It was an exciting morning had by all aboard the James Robert Hannsen today during a morning “work day.” I’ll let him tell the story himself, but the gist of it is that in the span of just 3 hours, we got 2 sets of good sparks from the wind turbine, blew out our power, got it back, and scraped a ton of mussels from the hull. Now it’s time to make some miles!
Day 29 audio update by Jordan
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No confirmation yet as to if the wind turbine is functioning (doesn’t spin anyways when batteries are full), or if the Airmar atmospheric sensors are back online, but so far it was a success. A couple tweets from the boat this afternoon, following the successful work day:
- “Power outage fixed! Dan Heyl returns life to the James Robert Hanssen! Both batteries at full charge too.” (2/21/13 @ 9am PST)
- “Cleaned 25 lbs of gooseneck mussels off the hull. Boat speed is up. Woot woot!” (2/21/13 @ 10am PST)