While in Utila checking into Honduras we started to smell a bilgy smell. We couldn't figure out what it could be until our battery monitor started acting funny as well.
We have six Trojan golf cart size batteries for our battery bank. We bought them new in 2013. This year we put replacing them on our to-do list. We have not had any problem with them but these types of batteries last approximately 4-5 years, and we are at the end. It is difficult to replace something that seems to be working so we figured we would give it until summer time. But didn't make it.
We came to the conclusion it had to be the batteries that were putting off that smell. So we went straight to French Harbor where we could get a slip and find parts.
Roatan is not a bad place to do boat work. We rented a slip for a month and got to work.
There is always good times to be had. Especially when you are birth next to a sister boat, Tayana 37.
We also had fellow Texan friends to visit with.
Found new Trojan Batteries on the mainland and got them shipped in for a great deal. I'm not sure we would have gotten a better deal in the States.
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