We had a short trip to Sucia Island. Just 8.5 miles from home, but it feels like being completely away on vacation. Short on miles, short on diesel, but a good 4 days 3 nights away from home. What I didn’t realize was how shallow the docks are at Sucia Island, or at last how
Today with some help from George, we reinstalled 6 of our 8 solar panels for the season. We remove them each winter to keep them from getting destroyed. Where we keep the boat in the winter we have shore power, but where we keep the boat in the summer we do not have any shore
Each fall we take off the solar panels for the winter and stormy season. Today we reinstalled the solar panels on the roof of the pilothouse for the season.
For the winter, we took off a number of the solar panels that would have been completely destroyed in wind storms, but we did place 2 inside the fly bridge enclosure to help keep the batteries topped off. Although they are just temporarily zip tied in place they are doing the job of keeping the
Many aspects of 2020 were very unprecedented, and there were some big challenges for the world, and for us personally as well, but overall it was a pretty good year for boating. Here is how the year shaped up for us. January 2020 In January we were full on busy shopping for our yacht. We
With gale force winds on the forecast for tomorrow, and more stormy weather after that today was the day to bring in the solar panels for the season and store them for the winter so that they will be in good shape to start next years boating season. The solar panels did well this season
It has been a few days since I have seen the sun due to all the forest fire smoke on the west coast. Not sure how long it will be until we see the sun again, and that means the solar is also impacted. Where we keep the boat we do not have power on
It has been 4 months since we first installed the solar panels on the boat. We have 6 of the 8 panels installed, each 110 watts of power. During the summer months on the days that we are not using the boat we keep the refrigerator running so that we don’t have to empty out
When we originally replaced the house batteries we put in 8 “Golf Cart 6v” batteries, that are primarily charged by our solar panels. Today we increased the capacity of our battery bank by 50% by adding 4 additional Golf Cart 6v batteries. These are added into the same bank that is charged by our 6
After our shakedown cruise, we discovered that even with the 4 x 8d deep cycle and AGM batteries they would barely hold a charge overnight with the 12v fridge running and some house lights. After some investigation we found several of the rules of long battery life being voilated. The batteries were different types. All
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