I was looking thru old Potter email and I came across an inquiry asking where
to put a Solar exhaust fan.
I installed a 3" Nicro "Day and Night 2000" solar-powered exhaust fan with
self charging battery on the foredeck. I got the stainless steel version
rather than the plastic one. I just pulled out the rubber cowl (3" Nicro-like
cowl), slid the solar fan into the deckplate ring, and was done with it. It's
easy to switch between the original rubber cowl, the solar fan, and a flat
plate that came with the fan for closing the hole in rough seas.
When I lower the mast to trailering position, the mast hooks to the front
chainplate. It clears the solar fan by an inch or two, so there's no problem.
So far, the fan has survived being stepped on several times by me, but not yet
by my heavier husband, without ill-effect.
It keeps the cabin dry, even in the pea-soup fog and dew that we get here in
the winter. The fan runs 24 hours a day, even in the indiredt light under the
green poly tarp that I have draped over the boat from bow pulpit to stern with
the mast in trailering position. There are enough places for air to get in
around my deteriorated cabin/companionway hatch that I don't need an intake
cowl. That may change when I get around to building a new companionway door.
Judoth Blumhorst, DC
WWP-19 #266 "Red Wing"
SF Bay, CA