Batteries are heavy, fyi.
On Friday, the First Mate had an overnight sleep over party to attend. That left the captain and I free of responsibilities. We had planned on spending Saturday doing boat work, anyway, and I set about cleaning some of the carpets onboard. Side note: to hell with anyone who puts carpet in a boat. Ahem. Anyway, the captain joined me on board around 5:15 pm and we decided, spontaneously, that we would take her for an overnight cruise. We got through the first bridge into alligator territory before we had a red wine spill (note: red wine on white fiberglass constitutes an emergency. Immediate deck swabbing had to happen, and did happen, by the admiral , no less, since the captain was driving.) We got that all situated and we continued our trip, out into the lake, where we had to wait a minute for the train bridge. This ended up with us navigating the end of our trip in the dark, which was awesome. Our nav lights work great. Seaward in the bayou We intended t