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I'm just posting an article here to remind people that this feature exists on the forum. This allows you to receive daily/weekly e-mail compendiums of posts without having to log into the forum.

-- Geoff

There are lots of posts on a daily basis. Why do you ask?

If you click on the "pencil", you can edit it. I edited it for you and changed "avoid boat" to "solid boat", which is very different!

I'm going to disagree with the suggestion for AGMs, in particular when you're discharging to the level that you're doing. You won't get many cycles out of them. What you really want is Ni-MH batteries which can be heavily deep-cycled, many, many times and they accept huge amounts of charging current...

I happened to note that we just passed 30,000 posts in this forum! That's a tremendous amount of information! Thanks to everyone for their contributions, either in form of questions or answers.

-- Geoff

The gauge should be easy to pull out. Note that the bolt pattern isn't linear, so place a mark on the gauge and the tank, so that you can reposition it when you put it back together. My fuel tank sender has an arm that swings up and down 90 degrees. My water tank has a float that just moves up and d...

Ed,

Thanks for all of the knowledge that you provided members of the forum. And I personally want to thank you for helping me sign up new forum members. That was greatly appreciated. Good luck with your new adventures and check in every once in a while!

-- Geoff

I wonder why they couldn't just wrap the camber spar heavily with sill insulation and then with plastic wrap and just ship it that way.

I agree with newtu2. You need to fully charge your batteries, and being on a mooring and just running the motor a few hours a day won't do that. A key question is how many Ah is your refrig drawing per day?

On my 40/40 the water tank overflows into the bilge.