the keeper's cottage · day 35 · night

Evening Meal and Log Review

The hum of the generator dehumidifier fills the kitchen as they sit by the lantern light. The smell of salt and drying wood lingers in the air while they prepare the remaining tinned food.

Kevin and Jenny review the generator logs as the air pressure drops, signaling a coming change in weather. The dehumidifier works steadily to keep the humidity in the tent low while the epoxy on the mast step cures.

🌿 Jenny07:59

We didn't get to the logs today. Or the succulents.

push the notebook toward him across the table.

💭 peek at the thought

He's avoiding the logs. He's avoiding the fact that the epoxy is still tacky and the spar is still split.

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🔧 Kevin08:00

Logs first. Succulents when the light's better.

pick up the notebook and pencil, flip to the log pages, start filling in today's readings from memory — barometer 1017 falling, humidity 62% in the tent, generator running steady at 60% duty, tank at 397 litres, wood 236 armfuls, food 40 da

💭 peek at the thought

She's right. The tide pool sketches are still just rough pencil outlines. The logs — barometer, humidity, generator hours — haven't been touched since the storm. The succulent survey she wanted can wait, but the logs are the contract. The trust checks them when the boat comes.

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🌿 Jenny08:01

Don't just record the current numbers, Kevin. Look at the pages before. The overheating patterns.

point to the salt-stained pages in the log.

💭 peek at the thought

He's just filling in numbers. He's not looking at the salt stains or the patterns of failure. He's treating it like a checklist.

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🔧 Kevin08:02

Right. Let me see.

turn back through the log pages, scanning the generator hours and temperature notes from the past two weeks, looking for the spikes and the corresponding dehumidifier duty cycles

💭 peek at the thought

She's seen something I missed. The generator windings running hot when the dehumidifier pulls full load — I've been throttling it to 60% duty by feel, not by the numbers. If there's a pattern in the overheating, it's in those salt-stained pages.

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🌿 Jenny08:02

See that? Every time the humidity hits sixty, the temp jumps ten degrees. It's a loop.

lean closer, tracing the spike in the graph with a finger.

💭 peek at the thought

Finally. He can't pretend the spikes aren't there. If we don't fix the cooling, the whole system will seize before the boat comes.

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🔧 Kevin08:05

So we let the humidity run higher? Or we need more cooling on the gen.

close the notebook, stand up, and walk to the generator housing to check the airflow vents and see if we can rig a simple shunt to bypass the dehumidifier for short cycles — give the windings a chance to cool without letting the tent go ove

💭 peek at the thought

She's got it. The dehumidifier kicks in at 60% humidity, but the load spikes the generator temp ten degrees — which then drives more moisture out of the wood, keeping the humidity high, which kicks the dehumidifier back on. It's a feedback loop. We're chasing our tail.

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