Sea Change

LiFePO4 are a variant of lithium ion. A somewhat lower energy density and much, much safer variant. You'll hear horror stories about...

Lighter for the same Ah, smaller, better charge acceptance than lead. Don't need a long absorption time. Don't need to be got to 100%...

Dual lever isn't that uncommon, I've seen it on fishing boats and work boats. It's a great way to destroy your drive plate by switching...

Rafted on a stink boat now

I was answering someone who said he’d been forced to use a knife because he had forgotten to unlash the tiller. I’m still waiting for...

Our new boat came with a diving knife and for want of a better place to store it, I've lashed it to the pedestal. It gets used for...

He is a plonker. He did not have enough warps and wanted to cut a long length to a shorter length (sacrilege!) not the way I skipper a...

We've just done Bahamas to North Carolina. Managed to avoided the worst of the lightning but sometimes the systems bubble up out of...

Chances are, a 2010 boat probably already has lithium compatible chargers etc installed. Why do you want to switch? Lithium makes a...

Which is one reason for keeping the lead acid and DC-DC in the loop. I don't expect to be relying on the wind gen as a primary charging...

Voluminous. Luxurious. Sumptuous. Equally Scandinaveous.

I used to run my Duogen directly into the lithium. It's output was so low compared to solar that i could leave it running when the...

I've got a Silentwind 400 which charges the engine/windlass batteries through its own charge controller. I have a little Victron Orion...

We used to spend a few weeks at a time on our Albin Vega, I wonder how the tris compare to that?

I think we can agree that it'd be a mission to permanently live aboard a folding triman in the Med. However, as a day...