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From: Jim Burgoyne (no email)
Date: Sun Jul 03 2005 - 13:49:44 EDT
After much debate, mostly with myself, I am probably going to pull my
engine rather than rebuild or replace. Other than wind, I plan to go
with two forms of propulsion on my Vancouver 27, a pair of rowing oars
for manoeuvring in tight and a sculling oar for the open water. I'm
told that I could pretty easily maintain one knot (no wind, no waves,
slack tide) with a long sculling oar and that's fine with me.
What is not fine is the loss of the engine as a battery charger. I
have four Trojan 105s.
No question, if this idea has a killer, it's my fridge. It's the hill
I can't seem to get over. The old one that came with the boat has all
but died, and I will replace it quick as I can. I really don't want to
live without a fridge and I know my love life would take a turn for
the worse if I didn't have one.
I have a 75-watt Siemen's solar panel. I don't like wind gens for
their constant noise, so to complement the panel I've been focusing on
trailing water gens or one or two more panels when at anchor. It might
seem hypocritical to some to buy a little fuel-run genset, but it
would be nice to have one for emergencies and cheaper than a new
Yanmar.
Anyone who is engineless or has ideas for coping with the loss of
generating capacity I'd be happy to hear what you've done, or suggest
I do. Also appreciate name of a small dependable (reasonably quiet)
genset to consider and maybe (this is a longshot) a brand of fridge
that might be more fuel efficient.
Cheers,
Jim (in Thailand)
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