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Lithium Power Systems
Yesterday, 05:36
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With lithium do we actually need a dedicated starter battery?
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Re: With lithium do we actually need a dedicated starter battery?
Are there LFP batteries that can provide 1400 CCA? And 560A continuously for 4.5 minutes?
-Chris
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Navigation
25-03-2024, 05:22
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"Best" chart/navigation software
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ranger58sb
Re: "Best" chart/navigation software
I suspect not "most."
Many, probably more accurate.
-Chris
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Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar
18-03-2024, 05:28
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AGM Maximum Discharge rate, Dead Giants
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ranger58sb
Re: AGM Maximum Discharge rate, Dead Giants
You're powering an electric cooktop with the inverter? Or long periods of convection oven/air fryer?
If so, maybe it's not exactly the inverter being the problem... more like the cooking.
We...
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Dollars & Cents
17-03-2024, 05:09
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How much should I be budgeting for yard work
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Re: How much should I be budgeting for yard work
You might separate those into skill areas... and into jobs done best on the hard and jobs where that maybe doesn't matter much.
Changing nav lights might be possible in slip, even if you have to...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
04-03-2024, 04:26
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Project boat as first boat?
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ranger58sb
Re: Project boat as first boat?
Piling on to what other folks have said: you will have all sorts of maintain/repair/improve projects associated with any "non-project" boat you buy. Buy a boat suited to your mission, in as good a...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
02-03-2024, 05:00
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interior paint?
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Re: interior paint?
Not to worry, I appreciate your insight. And I don't have to get this done before we return home. Have several other winter projects on my list anyway, and we've had some of the typical...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
01-03-2024, 09:22
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interior paint?
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Re: interior paint?
Took me a while to get pics from phone to laptop... and then to remember how to upload... and I forgot to correct orientation before uploading, so all three are rotated 90-degrees counter-clockwise....
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Monohull Sailboats
01-03-2024, 05:12
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Largest boat couple can handle
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Re: Largest boat couple can handle
There's a Beneteau Oceanis 451 (I think) coming soon to market in Charleston, if that's useful to know. It'll be with the broker at the City Marina. I dunno much more about it, though...
-Chris
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
01-03-2024, 05:08
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interior paint?
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ranger58sb
Re: interior paint?
Hmmm.... Do you mean you just painted over residual glue?
-Chris
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
29-02-2024, 05:29
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interior paint?
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ranger58sb
Re: interior paint?
Good point. And we've also been working in shorter sessions, too.
Looking at my wording above... I didn't mean to say this is working WELL. Just better.
So far we've spent about 18 hours --...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
28-02-2024, 04:40
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interior paint?
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ranger58sb
Re: interior paint?
Heat and the pull scraper is working MUCH better than our previous approaches!
It's still a PITA doing the initial scrape 2-1/2" at a time (the size I got), but at least the glue is coming off...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
22-02-2024, 05:03
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interior paint?
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Re: interior paint?
OK, will, do... and thanks again. I meant to say before that I'd not thought of a draw scraper, and I can see how that work way better than a putty knife.... so I already ordered one yesterday.
...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
21-02-2024, 08:23
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interior paint?
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Re: interior paint?
Thanks. I haven't tried the heat gun yet; sorta been holding that thought while I escalated other ideas first.
First tried Goo Gone spray gel, scraped off with a putty knife. Not bad for the...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
21-02-2024, 05:38
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interior paint?
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ranger58sb
Re: interior paint?
I don't think your comments are lost or ignored.
Interior water-based acrylic latex wasn't my first choice, but circumstances have led us that way this time for a specific and relatively low-risk...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
21-02-2024, 05:37
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interior paint?
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Re: interior paint?
I don't think your comments are lost or ignored.
Interior water-based acrylic latex wasn't my first choice, but circumstances have led us that way this time for a specific and relatively low-risk...
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Monohull Sailboats
21-02-2024, 04:59
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Changing the VHF
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ranger58sb
Re: Changing the VHF
An MMSI belongs to the boat, not the radio.
For cruising outside U.S. waters, it's proper to have an FCC-issued Ship's Station license (which includes an MMSI), and a Restricted Radio Operator's...
Forum:
Navigation
20-02-2024, 05:06
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"Best" chart/navigation software
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ranger58sb
Re: "Best" chart/navigation software
For those of us with lightweight nav requirements... sat images seem interesting to have, but I don't remember ever needing or even using them. Multiple options, for a capability never used, isn't...
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Liveaboard's Forum
19-02-2024, 08:00
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New Cruiser is Annapolis looking for advice
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ranger58sb
Re: New Cruiser is Annapolis looking for advice
You might have a look at Hartge Yacht Harbor in Galesville.
Not downtown Annapolis, but they do have some liveaboards around there. Don't know what their policy about that is, though.
Might be...
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Antares Yachts
19-02-2024, 07:50
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Pushing the budget
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Re: Pushing the budget
Certainly. Hence the typical choice to earn money doing whatever, using the money in exchange for whatever.
Earning money is generally optional. Folks could just instead curl up and die,...
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Construction, Maintenance & Refit
19-02-2024, 07:47
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interior paint?
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ranger58sb
Re: interior paint?
FWIW, the interior of our boat isn't exactly a "marine" environment.
And if it turns "marine" we've got way more problems than paint.
I don't typically think of wallpaper -- which is what we're...
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Antares Yachts
19-02-2024, 05:28
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Pushing the budget
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ranger58sb
Re: Pushing the budget
That's not actually a firm requirement. You can grow your own food, cobble your own shoes, make your own clothing, etc... ideally by homesteading (or inheriting) land somewhere...
Or trading...
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Monohull Sailboats
19-02-2024, 05:10
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Largest boat couple can handle
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ranger58sb
Re: Largest boat couple can handle
I'd guess the default answer is more likely "it depends."
One set of issues is all about layout and how a boat is set up... not so much length per se. A 50' XXXX might be much easier to handle...
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General Sailing Forum
19-02-2024, 05:03
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Winter marina SE US
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ranger58sb
Re: Winter marina SE US
Cruising the Chesapeake, a Gunkholer's Guide, by Bill Shellenberger.
-Chris
Forum:
Navigation
19-02-2024, 05:01
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"Best" chart/navigation software
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13,484
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ranger58sb
Re: "Best" chart/navigation software
I haven't meant to imply that I think OpenCPN isn't a good app.
Just that it's always seemed (from the outside) like too much work, for me, to install, learn, support, etc.
Easier for me to...
Forum:
Navigation
18-02-2024, 08:57
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"Best" chart/navigation software
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13,484
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ranger58sb
Re: "Best" chart/navigation software
That's what it's looked like to me... just from seeing traffic in this forum section.
My background was Unix in the '70s, DOS starting in the early '80s, Windows starting with V1.0 (useless 'til...
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