20260601 - The Solix started at 53% at 7:00am. After coffee it was 51%. The NOCO Genius Gen5 3x house battery charger seems to use more power than I would expect. It always uses around 250-300 watts of power. So we ran it for a while today to top off the house batteries. It never went into maintenance mode to use less power. ChatGPT says as long as anything is drawing power from the batteries, like refrigerator, chart plotter, auto pilot, etc. it will keep using full power. So we turned if off when we were able to. At the time of this writing the Solix is at 56%.

20260601 - 8:00am start time. Averaged around 5 kts against a current. Ran both motors. Anchored about 6:00pm at mile marker 177.

20260531. Started the day at 8:00am. The Solix was down to 71%. Motored on one motor to Pebble Isle marina. Arrived 1:30pm. Filled the gas tank - 9.5 gallons for about 14 hours of motoring, mostly on one motor. From Pebble Isle onward we used both motors, working against the river current. Cleared under the railroad bridge at 2:30pm. Anchored at 6:00pm at mile marker 119. The smart battery charger for the house batteries is drawing about 300 amps. This seems excessive. The Solix was down to 71% at the end of the day.

20260530 - 9 hours. 45 miles. Mostly on one engine. Left GTB at 8:50am. We left the canal into Kentucky Lake at mile marker 25 and our average speed was 5.6 kts. At 9:45 we switched to one engine only and our average speed was 3.9 kts. At 10:15 we lifted the unused engine out of the water and our speed increased to 4.3 kts. We stopped at 6:00pm at mile marker 70.

Christa and Gianluca tossing a volleyball on Kentucky Lake. Video upload from my phone.

Mateo and Gianluca on the boat at Green Turtle Bay Marina, evening party, from my phone.