So far, so good. Today, on our third attempt we got out of the marina without blowing a fuse. We actually followed the red line on the way to Grado to fill up with diesel and do some shopping, spend a couple of hours there and then followed the green line home.
Even though we filled up with diesel we did the entire trip on the electric motor.
Left the dock at about 9am and took about 1hr45m at about 3.5 knots to get to a service station that was next to the water and next to the road. The good part about these service stations is that the fuel price doesn't have that 'marine' tax and you're pretty sure to have fresh fuel. We filled up and then moved further round towards town. That's when we discovered that the bridge is just a little bit too low. Anyway, we found a vacant berth on the end of the dock and went in search of someone who owned it. Found a guy who spoke Italian and German but not a scratch of English but about 45 minutes later a guy turned up and said 'No Problemo' to us staying for a couple of hours while we did some shopping.
The main batteries had dropped to 66% during the trip there and by the time we were ready to leave again the solar panels had topped them back up to 85%.
Uneventful trip back and we were down to 63% by the time we had docked. All in all, very happy.
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