Ok i know i am way behind here, isn't this blogging thing supposed to be written as it happens but that's not me.
So trying to remember what happened, there has been a lot of whiskey and Corona. Yes, I'm a fancy beer man, see….
We made Victoria in really good time. Probably burning way too much fuel and running about 16 knots most of the way. Super smooth seas again and looking st my fuel gauges so far I'm pleasantly surprised. Will do a proper check next time we fill up but at this point we had used less than a quarter of a tank on 800 gallon tanks. Not too bad for the distance travelled.
Coming in to Sidney was just beautiful. The weather has been amazing every day. Totally amazing clear skies and temps in the mid to high 20's every day (Celsius people I'm English remember)
Victoria has these really cool mini tug boat taxis that are everywhere like little mosquitoes buzzing around. 
Super cool little boats.
We arrived at causeway floats. The location is probably the best of any Marina I've stayed at. Right in front of the empress hotel. Parliament to the left. And street performers right behind the boat.
No 50amp power at the dock though so this was the first time i plugged 30 amp in, more on that later, something ain't right!
We got settled, filled water tanks and then went for a still around the harbor, wasn't long before our friends called and they were at the dock so we wandered back, met them and decided to take the dinghy out run it down the estuary running into town. Nice little boat ride, more Corona on board 🙂 a little industrial to start and then nice houses lining the water. I was amazed out how well BC looks after people for the water, there were swimming docks everywhere to tie to, for some reason Seattle is slack on that stuff. We stopped after about 20 minutes to let the dog swim. Thankful he didn't see the seal that pooped up just the other side of the rocks he was swimming next to, not sure how a Springer Spaniel/ Seal encounter would go down. But if got funky i think the Seal would win! David and Heather seemed to enjoy it, big dog lovers so Zed was in his element..
You can see us in this pic in the Marina. We are the boat in the middle furthest away…
We got back to the boat and had planned to go out to dinner but somehow the sun and beer kept us pinned to the sun pad up front, no one wanted to leave so we sat there ands watched the sun go down and ordered pizza delivered to the dock. Awesome day.
Back to that 30 amp power…
That night we were watching TV before going to bed and suddenly it all switched off, i checked breakers and power etc and the inverter was showing an error and the batteries were not charging. There was clearly some problem with running off the 30 amp power. Ended up having to switch the generator on and everything fired back up. Weird.
Woke in the morning with low batteries and everything dead again, so i know i have some problem with running one 30 amp power cable.
This boat has a ton of electrical crap running all the time. At minimum without running anything special. I figure we are powering, 2 ice makers, a full size fridge freezer, surround sound systems with amp etc, TV's plugged in on standby, 2 GPS systems with multiple screens, auto pilot, water pumps etc. and that's without anything fancy like the dishwasher on, so even sitting doing nothing we are using a lot of power. Need to figure out what's going on with the 30 amp supply.
I ra the genset again and everything charged up fine and we were headed to Roche where they have 50 amp power again. But need to look into it.
There is always something.