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Old 08-01-2007
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Here in lovely Florida for the past four or five days we have been having afternoon thunderstorms that start hazing up the sky by late morning and staying that way for the rest of the day. It has been nice to capture what sun power I can early on with my unofficial Solar Stik(s). The AirX wind generator has also not been giving us a steady rain of power. There have been burst of energy in the afternoon when the storms come through, but overall, we are having a normal mid summer sky. For the second or third time in a year we ran the engine for an hour this evening because the batteries were down to 12.4. We probably could have lived like real sailors and been cruising conservative, but opted to use a bit of fuel.
Kathleen
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