I connected the wind generator back to the batt bank today and at the time noticed that one of the solar controllers was dead. This controller managed two big panels on the top of the cockpit. This would explain the lack of power for the past several months.
Now I have to find a replacement that is not "MorningStar" since that is the brand that died in less than 1 year of installation… We will see…. But for now the other tow solar panels using Genesun controller and the D400 Wind have use in the positive area for now.
I'll have to get a new solar controller for the center panels

The stuffing box took a 3/4 turn on the bolts… All is good now, no more drippy drippy… the bolts are rusting on the ends, but not where it cinches down. I spray the bolts with anti-corrosion grease every year, but when the engine is in gear the drips of water spray around and off the shaft as they exit the surfing box. This provides a bit of salt spray onto the ends of the long bolts. I image that when I change the packing on the box I'll have to buy new bolts and nuts and expect the same to occur again and again over the years.
The 3/4 turn has reduced the 1QT of water dripping in the boat at anchor every 2 hours down to 1QT every other day.
I think I prefer a traditional surfing box, like the one I have, than the new fangled things that have more methods to fail. The traditional box is unlikely to fail catastrophically but you do have to adjust it every 500 hour or so on the engine.

Yesterday we splashed back into the ocean… YEH!!! Living on the Hard is Hard and dirty. Boat yards are full of dust, dirt, mud, etc… I'll spend the next few days in Clarks Court Bay cleaning up the boat and getting everything back in order. The I still have to some on the water projects, like service the engine, connect the cables to the wind generator, repack the V-berth, bend on the sails…
I put 3.5 coats of Trinidad paint on the bottom and had the sides polished so she is shiny again. The Max Prop was reset for 16 degrees for 18 this should make a difference no how the engine runs at high speed.
Today I wend shopping to resupply the food after a week on the Hard.
Great stars tonight. I can see the Big Dipper and the North Star as well as the Southern Cross and the two Guides Stars. It is nice to be near the equator on a clear night! They are calling for mostly cloudy conditions this weekend and rain… So tonight is special to have such a clear sky and moon that is almost full.

About the second year after owning Music, I put all the anchor chain out on the dock, measured it and painted the markings. Ever since then I have believed that the marks were 5 leagues (aka 30 feet). I have always anchored assuming that was true and that worked until I went out into the ocean.
For the past two years where I'm anchoring in 20+ feet of water, I noticed that my anchor didn't set as well as it should at 5:1 ratio, so I've been using 8:1 ratio.
Today I dumped all of the chain onto the ground and found that instead of 30ft per mark, I have 20ft per mark. This explains why and 20 ft. of depth I had to use what I thought was 150ft of chain to be secure (7.5:1) when in fact I was only using 100ft of chain (5:1), and that is perfectly normal until you get winds above 40Kts.
Oh well, I'm still not sure why I thought it was 30ft per mark…. It is clearly 20ft per mark.

We will be on the Hard for a week, maybe a little longer depending on when we can get a new "prop nut" delivered.
Here is a picture of the boat on the trailer. I've never been hauled this way, it was a bit strange. Usually marinas use a travel lift. This place only uses the travel lift for really big boats.