--- The Costas <uffda@sonic.net> wrote:
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> MW wrote:
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> >hello, I am thinking about buying a potter 19.
> I am unsure about
> >recharging batteries. do I need a solar panel, or
> just a plain battery
> >charger? I don't know. What do you guys and gals
> think a weekend sailor
> >would need for a four day weekend trip with a wife,
> two teenage sons
> >(music) and what dad wants is a weather report.
> issues: Batteries- how
> >long will they last? Solar panel- will they
> recharge the battery after a
> >day sailing? What do you guys think?
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> I know this has received great answers from the
> group, but unless I missed
> it did anyone mentioned that a normal (GP 24, 27)
> battery should last for a
> four day trip? I used mine for a week at a local
> lake a couple of years
> back and never ran out of power. I would say that
> my usage was moderate to
> low as we ran the stereo when we felt like it and
> used the cabin light for
> about an hour each night, but didn't have to use the
> anchor or running
> lights. A GP 27 battery should have about 80 amp
> hours of storage. Even
> the anchor light only uses 1 amp per hour (both
> lights) so if that is all
> you used your battery for you should be able to stay
> out for ten nights
> (summer). I don't know about you, but ten nights on
> a Potter is more than I
> care to do without a couple of marina (shower) stops
> where I would be able
> to recharge the battery.
>
> And what about the boys and their stereo? Are you
> telling us that you
> always agree on what to listen to? When my girls
> were at that age I could
> never get them to agree between themselves on what
> to play! My answer was
> cheap cassette (with headphones) players (nowadays
> it would be CDs)and a
> brick of AA batteries ($10 for 40 at Costco) split
> between them. During
> "family time" we would "expose" them to our music
> (turned down low so to be
> just a background). We even have trouble here as I
> am an old 60's rocker,
> and my wife is into what I call "suffering female
> country/folk" singers. It
> never failed to happen that she would get a migraine
> every time I played
> Hendrix at the "proper" volume, or I would have to
> take a walk after the
> tenth song about how "the world done me wrong"! So,
> if all four of you are
> able to take extended cruses (and wear out your
> battery by playing the
> stereo) on a boat as small as a P-19 without need of
> extensive follow-up
> therapy, my hat is off to you.
>
> Larry
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