Antigua
English Harbor
17.00.259N
61.45.596W

After we returned from our hike up the mountain, Dale and I went for a quick swim around the boat. It felt good to cool off. Unfortunately, it seems now as if it only served to make my cold worse, so we didn’t do anything today except wait for the refrigeration guy to make a boat call.

We’ve become more and more concerned that our refrigeration just isn’t keeping up. Dale’s back flushed the system and cleaned the filters and pretty much done everything he can think of to make it more efficient. So we called in a dealer representative to have a look.

When the refrigeration guy came out, he measured this and that and then topped it off with a bit more gas. Then he measured everything over again. He came up with the thought that the cooling system probably needed to be cleaned. Not a problem, just go buy some muriatic acid and dump it in; let it sit a few minutes to de-scale, then rinse it out.

Sounds simple enough; we’ll try it tomorrow.