Dora started a load of wash early. We used Arlene's car to go for groceries about 1100. Arlene got permission for us to use a slip owned by her neighbor for a few days. We moved Seascape to the slip just before checkout time at the marina. Arlene went ahead of us in our dinghy to give us a hand with the dock lines. The wind and the current were right on our bow so I had to use the bow thruster for relatively long periods to keep from loosing control of the bow. Just as Dora and Arlene got the lines secured the thruster stopped working.
As soon as Arlene left I started to figure out what was wrong with the thruster. After some trial and error, I found that the negative terminal on one of the batteries was completely melted from the battery and molten led was fused to the bottom of the battery box. I'm not sure what went wrong but I suspect that the almost new battery shorted out due to the high current demand from the thruster. We went out to dinner with Sue and Arlene at a Mexican restaurant.
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