Summer 2025: Leaving Southern France for the Adriatic
Dewinterization
Arriving in Saint Tropez, I was anticipating some minor issues after 11 months on the hard. What I didn’t expect was the batteries, the lithium batteries to be at 0%. I know I had disconnected them and left than 100%. not only were they at 0%, but they were in a safety mode, which would not allow them to take a charge. Fortunately, Morgan, the local master volt technician able to charge them with a smart charger and disable the safety mode so they would take their charge. It turned out the mistake was mine. I did disconnect the batteries, but the master Bus cable, which connects the lithium to all the master volt equipment throughout the boat was still connected. The master volt equipment, ultimately drained the batteries through this direct link to the lithium