January 2024 - Making preparations to Ripple for Segment 2, Sandusky, Ohio to Ft. Myers, Florida June to November

                                                      February  2024 Update

Ripple is lying in Sandusky, Ohio in heated storage this winter.  Ron from Lake Erie Marine Electronics has installed two new AGM 8D batteries and all new LED light fixtures in the boat.  While traversing the Trent Severn Canal I lost the sonar/depth sounder on the Raymarine Axiom 9 Chart Plotter.  I had a second depth sounder luckily.  It seemed to happen around the Big Chute Railway so I thought it had to do with the straps used to hoist us in the railcar.  As it turns out I must have stepped on the transducer and cracked it while I was checking engine fluids or organizing the engine compartment.  Of course, it was a critical tool I would have liked to have had when we were in Georgian Bay and the North Channel!  I found myself looking at the chart plotter often for depth readings.  It created some stress sometimes!

The new top installed on the transducer.

The new LED lights installed!  It is really bright now!

The LED lights take very little current so they are all wired to 12 volt now.  

New AGM's ready for service!!