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• Our turn!
  • Needed: small, invisible, high output, cheap solar panels
    • The Sunware ones might work for you...
    • Charlie - Take a look at these
      • Here's a closer view of what I'm using now
      • I just looked again and realized Onboardpv.com is now selling Sunware
      • Larry, the boarders on ours....
        • That sounds like a good fix
      • Nice clean installation Larry- multihulls do have some advantages!
        • Spend money on energy-savings
          • I'm with you all the way on that!
            • I read Nigel Calder's Sail article too
    • The Bimini is not just a parking place for solar...
      • So true, also planning for Alaska
    • Forget solar and go with a real generator
      • I'm not closing the door on that
        • You don't worry about noise.
          • For passages a tow generator...
            • Yes, prodigious power at hull speed
              • True retreiving it...
                • Interested In details about your Friends Prop Alt...
                  • My friends...
                • Try this trick for retrieving a towgen
                  • Not so easy...
            • I was thinking of trying an electric outboard
              • DuoGen
      • I wouldn't forget the solar panels but I
        • I will produce 3kw from main engine!
          • You might consider a larger alternator than that...
            • Impressive! I'm being a bit conservative
              • Some details...
                • Those generators always seem too complicated.
                • Thanks for the details!
          • PSKA
            • Alternators
              • Thanks for the tip
          • It's not about how much you can put into
            • Good stuff Steve!
              • Steve, Dan...Yes, power needs do drive the design
                • power take off
                  • That's very useful information... where can I find the "official" source?
                    • power take off from workshop manual
                      • Thanks! I'll find, buy, borrow, a manual.
    • Looking at pole mounted solar mounts
      • May I suggest...
        • I hear you
      • If you're going to the tropics....
      • I don't know, that looks like an awfully large panel for a single point mounting...
        • Not as fast as I used to go...
        • Your Instructive photo Jon, designed to your needs.. lotsa questions
          • You could mount them on either side of your pushpit pretty easily
          • My arrangement is pretty simple, if not a bit "agricultural"... (grin)
            • Gotta love your simple, elegant and not too expensive schemes!
  • Wrongway Charlie
    • Plan's to leave PNW mid to late Aug
      • no wonder you're smiling
        • Mex clearance after hurricanes, Westie lving PNW before autmn nasties
          • Sorry, left over pic, they only show in the original post.
      • Don't leave too late.