Today we went to Plantation Yacht Harbor to get diesel, water, get rid of trash and prep to move on north. After taking care of business Lee tried to back out of the fuel dock. It required a 90 degree turn to get headed out. It also was not a floating dock but had heavy posts higher than our solar cells which are mounted on the back just under the boom. Unfortunately despite 2 people on the dock supposedly helping, Lee ran into one of the posts. He was motoring backward and the back of the port side solar cell caught squarely on a post. Before he realized it he had bent the frame holding the 3 solar cells forward so far they tore the canvas and almost collapsed the canvas. The frame is 2" aluminum tubing and is welded to the tubing on the back of the boat and mounted on the swim platform. Everything got bent out of position as things pushed and shoved against each other. The boat does not have "back up" genes. We probably can not get it fixed properly till we get home but we hope in the next day or two to get it pushed more or less back in position. Looks pretty bad right now. Was not one of his smartest moves.
We motored on about 2 hours to Buttonwood where there is a yachting club marina that we are going to stay in tomorrow and maybe next day. We can walk to a place from there to get propane and a drug store where we can get some other necessities. Hopefully someone at the marina will have some ideas about how or who could help us get the frame and solar cells bent back where they belong.
Some days you just wish you had stayed in bed! This is one of them.
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