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Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 04-04-2024, 12:17
Replies: 4
Views: 391
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Hoist-able Water Bladder

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009ONFDEM

That's the one we use, I think there's a smaller version of it too. It fills the floor of our dinghy, and we use a transfer pump to empty most of it. ...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 30-06-2023, 19:53
Replies: 54
Views: 4,243
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Newbie question about working on the bottom

The cheapest method is to paint the spots under the stands just before they drop your in the water. When possible we've had yards that would hang us in the crane the night before, so we could hit...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 25-05-2023, 20:17
Replies: 937
Views: 83,874
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Inboard engines and a changing world

With electric motors, the cost of the motor is the cheap part. A 48v bank is going to cost more than that motor. Guestimate around $2400 for 9.6kwh that you're going to want. You could get AGM's...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 29-04-2023, 22:24
Replies: 937
Views: 83,874
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Inboard engines and a changing world

The more I look at it, the more I think the hybrid motors are going to be a real thing for sailboats in the medium size range. Where you're just big enough to want a generator, but not so big you...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 29-01-2023, 19:30
Replies: 41
Views: 9,598
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Toroidal Props. Wow!

Waiting to see how they perform on a 10 to 25hp outboard myself. Honestly I doubt there's enough advantage to really help a displacement hull. The rpm ranges might look great in the charts, but...
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 28-01-2023, 18:13
Replies: 10
Views: 2,081
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Donald Ross Bridge near Jupiter is closed

Well, it's good to know all the relevant sources of official notice are essentially useless. We can get google maps to tell us when a stop light is out, but an entire bridge is just too big of an...
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 27-01-2023, 14:47
Replies: 10
Views: 2,081
Posted By Corvidae
Donald Ross Bridge near Jupiter is closed

So we found out the hard way earlier this week that the Donald Ross bridge was closed, just as we were trying to get by. Kind of a BFD for any sailboats trying to get past Jupiter on the ICW.
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Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 26-01-2023, 04:53
Replies: 35
Views: 5,726
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Liveaboards or cruisers?

$85 a year is great, if you live on an ice breaker.

There are lots of cheap marina's up North, all with a similar problem, winter. Pretty much the same down to around Virginia to North Carolina. ...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 21-12-2022, 08:05
Replies: 937
Views: 83,874
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Inboard engines and a changing world

All animal life on Earth makes co2. We'll never have a shortage that we care about.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 20-12-2022, 15:45
Replies: 35
Views: 5,726
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Liveaboards or cruisers?

Liveaboard is in premium on both coasts pretty much universally. Transient slips for a few days are easy, just about everywhere. Right around the one month mark, dockmasters start to balk, and...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-12-2022, 11:54
Replies: 937
Views: 83,874
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Inboard engines and a changing world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah

Only about $500 million after inflation. Pocket change for us sailboat cruisers.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-12-2022, 11:49
Replies: 937
Views: 83,874
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Inboard engines and a changing world

Technically you can cross the Atlantic in a fart powered bathtub. That doesn't mean it's a viable long distance cruiser. 2.5 to 3 knots is what you'll end up with when facing currents and winds in...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-12-2022, 10:01
Replies: 937
Views: 83,874
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Inboard engines and a changing world

The regen from sailing is enough to keep the lights on, not much else. We'll make 100 watts easily, 500 with good wind. And burn 5000 watts to keep up 5.5 knots of speed on our boat, displacing 12...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-12-2022, 08:08
Replies: 937
Views: 83,874
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Inboard engines and a changing world

You need to find better news sources that aren't spreading baseless rumors.

That 'plan' was a proposal that wasn't adopted, was never near implementation, and even if it were, was no where near a...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-11-2022, 13:20
Replies: 1
Views: 612
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Palm Beach dinghy and parking?

Riviera Beach City Marina has parking overnight there on a regular basis because of the camp sites on Peanut Island. We've had friends park there for the weekend when they came out to our boat in...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 19-09-2022, 16:27
Replies: 89
Views: 7,851
Posted By Corvidae
Re: 304 vs 316 on deck

Another thing to note is that aluminum has no fatigue limit. If you load it, it will break eventually. That's the real reason for using thicker aluminum than really needed to match the yield...
Forum: Emergency, Disaster and Distress 06-09-2022, 16:22
Replies: 356
Views: 41,023
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Orcas appear to have sunk a sailboat- what now?

Has no one tried a signal cannon? They're harmless as far as shooting Orca's is concerned, but should be loud enough to scare them off. I mean it's either that, or a 50 gallon drum of bear spray...
Forum: Marine Electronics 26-08-2022, 10:36
Replies: 29
Views: 3,787
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Starlink + T-Mobile: A new option for global messaging?

It looks like they're making this a public thing so they can start getting other international carriers on board. The spectrum wars are just getting started it seems.

Makes me wonder how long...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 03-06-2022, 08:57
Replies: 47
Views: 9,008
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Diesel-electric hybrid saildrive

Why have one for the price of one, when you can have two for the price of two?

A boat can always go as fast as you can afford to make it go. Unfortunately very few of us can afford to go as fast...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 03-06-2022, 08:04
Replies: 47
Views: 9,008
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Diesel-electric hybrid saildrive

Honestly I'd be interested in going with one of those hybrid marine systems if I could afford it. It's not just a propulsion thing. The propulsion batteries are also the house batteries, and I need...
Forum: Our Community 02-05-2022, 08:09
Replies: 31
Views: 3,544
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Starlink - From Dish to now a Phone

You mean the same guy that destroyed the small truck industry with his electric truck?
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 15-02-2022, 06:48
Replies: 20
Views: 1,800
Posted By Corvidae
Re: RTEG -- Ideal Energy Source for Cold Latitudes?

There's a major difference between a space probe and a marine power solution. Space probes have an incredibly hard time emitting heat, boats are literally floating in a heat sink. That changes...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 31-01-2022, 10:40
Replies: 298
Views: 63,186
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Musk says Starlink will work on boats

I'm waiting to see how long it's going to take Starlink to be available in India. They've been VERY restrictive of satellite communication since there was a terrorist attack that used sat phones to...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 30-01-2022, 20:52
Replies: 298
Views: 63,186
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Musk says Starlink will work on boats

The problem Musk is going to run into with the cruising vessel market is that the Starlink needs nearby ground stations. Each satellite is an independent relay to a nearby ground station, with...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 28-01-2022, 07:41
Replies: 16
Views: 1,677
Posted By Corvidae
Re: Inverter AC wiring issues.

Just remember if you do get an inverter/charger, the charger portion will always be on, and it counts towards the total load on the circuit. This is part of the reason I never use the built in...
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