Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 (addendum)

Today was very quiet until about sunset when my father noticed that the
clew ring on the Parasailor had mostly ripped out of the sail. My uncle
Tom then tried to start the engine so we would have it running while we
took the sail down. The engine would not start and we found that the
starter battery was dead. The problem is that the only way to charge the
starter battery is to run the engine. The starter battery is also used
to start the generator which charges the house batteries, so with it
dead we cannot charge any of the batteries.
We removed one of the house batteries and used it to jump start the
engine. The engine is now charging the starter battery so we should be
fine, except we do not know why it went dead in the first place.
We have now gotten the Parasailor down and will try and fix it tomorrow.
The wind is still very light. So we need the big sail up to really keep
moving.