The S/V Freedom is an Endeavour 42 sloop rigged sailboat. But more importantly, it's our home. We're on an indefinite cruise of the east coast of North America, following the seasons.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Solar
We rented a car for a day to buy the solar panels and do some shopping. Got almost everything done in 22 hours then back to enterprise. We were concerned about overheating so we arranged for a mechanic to do some work on the cooling system too. I figured 4 maybe 5 days to complete the install and a few more things. We finished almost everything in 10 days, just in time for severe storms to come through, so we stayed 2 more days.
But now we have 240 watts of solar. We were running our generator almost 3 hours every day when we sat at anchor. This should cut that back to 1 hour every few days! Yea!
Posted by Ed aboard S/V Freedom
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Ed good to here that you are having a good time sounds like your tack problem could be a bad groud thats usualy what it is. enjoy the sun and fair winds to the islands
ReplyDeleteGordie Connelly
@Gordie Connelly:
ReplyDeleteThanks for checking in Gordie, good to hear from you. Hope you are doing well.
I did do a lot of digging for bad grounds, nothing so far.