On July 16th, USS Missouri set out to engage all opponents upon the Alta Mons Sea. A Reconnaissance Report indicated a substantial minefield (moss) that would restrict Missouri's operational area. While no hostiles were encountered, the day did not proceed without incident.
Missouri was testing out her new more redundant propulsion system, which worked with mixed results: Her starboard engines ran without problem or failure the entire day - marking her first meet that she did not require some form of recovery. Unfortunately, the port motor kept blowing fuses (and still is even on the bench a week later - there is some weird ground short which even took out my multimeter fuse this evening, putting debugging on hold until morning).
Holy <bleep>ing <bleep> is space tight in Nassau... I knew batteries were going to be tough but this is nuts... Last meet's discovery that Nassau basically needs to run at 12 VDC to get to speed was a major blow. It basically knocked out any possibility of using sealed lead acid batteries (SLAs).
For many years I have discouraged people from trying to use watertight boxes or assembles. Most people in this club have taken that advise and I think would report it was good advise. Byron was one of the few people who did not. I thought I found, and dismantled, all of his watertight compartments in BC Lion but I missed one. Under the center turret there was a darlington-transistor/power-relay water-sensing circuit. Apparently the power relay got wet at some point before I bought the boat and was never died out. Even before I disassembled it you could clearly see that there is a lot of corrosion inside the water-tight box.