Some Damage

We've had our first breakage. The DuoGen water turbine's shaft has sheared.
For those that don't know what a DuoGen does, it drags along behind the boat
causing it's propeller to spin. This spins a generator, which creates
electricity, which contributes to the charging of the boat batteries.

Fortunately, it was only a contributor to the battery charging system. We
still have the solar panels and alternators on the engines. But this does
mean that we will have to run the engines every day now, which isn't really
a bad thing because the watermaker also runs off an engine, so we can top up
at the same time.

So how did it break? It is undoubtedly my fault. I left a piece of rope on
the shaft - yep, just too lazy to remove it - and the rope caught in the
prop, which would have stopped the propeller spinning instantly. The inertia
of the generator would have snapped the shaft. Once again, laziness has been
the route cause of creating unnecessary work.