and they are bent about 3%. I had designed the dodger around ones advertised by Solara (the US one) which were 100W on G10 backing. But the company never delivered and has now disappeared. Your experience with Sunware doesn't give confidence. The panels are mounted directly to the carbon dodger (and there are two more on the lazarette hatch) so they are well supported and in a place that they don't get walked on much. Both the hatch and the dodger are walkable (we have had two people on the dodger and it hardly noticed) but it isn't necessary most of the time.

One nice thing about the Sunware is they put a couple of extra cells to get the open circuit voltage up higher, so that when warm they still charge. I am using a Blue Sky MPPT controller and on a sunny day get about 4.5 amps out of the panels and 6 amps into the batteries. It is a 24V system and the O.C. voltage of the panels is about 40V. We are missing the diode pack for one of the panels so only 5 are functioning now.

I still need to do some finish work on the dodger to secure the fabric underneath when it is folded, and provide some proper chocks for it to land on. Right now I zip out the canvas (which takes about 10 minutes), then lower the top (another 2 minutes). It should only take half that amount of time. But in the 40 days I just spent on the boat, we never wanted it down enough to go through the effort. When it was warm I just removed the center canvas panel.