Well, we picked up a new v-belt at the auto parts store for our washing machine. The old one died on the last load of laundry we did before leaving SD. Today, with the new belt installed, I’m catching up on laundry.

We usually use our little Honda EU2000 generator when running the washer, but decided to go all-out and use the Onan (8kW) genset this time. That would mean turning on every electrical appliance in the boat to try and come close to loading up the Onan–hotplate, space heater, icemaker, washer AND it’s internal hot water heater that we usually don’t use, both computers, all the battery chargers for tools and stuff, all the 110V lights in the boat. Well, I suppose we could have run the air compressor but we didn’t 🙂

We try to use the Onan at least 1x per month just to keep it working. Since we don’t use it often, our “system” for start up isn’t as smooth as it should be. Today, we actually forgot to turn on the raw water (cooling water) until the genset had been running a few minutes and our handy-dandy little “raw water failure alarm” started screaming at us to do something about it. Thank goodness for that little gizmo! It surely saved us the impeller and a melt-down of the (plastic/rubber) exhaust system.

The boat is now smelling like clean laundry and I love that smell 🙂