3 boats with battery charging ... sauna with lights and music .... couple of LED floodlights ????

[Refueler]

My previous boat, that i lived aboard for several years, was fitted with 3x110Ah leisure batteries and 2x100W solar panels. During the Summer i was self sufficient with electricity, although cooking was by gas.

A 450W panel should be more than enough in Summer, but if not, you only have to add another panel, costing £50/£60, providing you buy a controller that can handle that much power, just in case. A small inverter solves the 240V issue.

In the Winter you're not likely to be having music outdoors or having saunas, you just need to trickle charge the boat batteries.

Stick with LA batteries, although they are not perfect in your Winter temps, LFP will not tolerate them for charging, unless you fit heat mats etc.

As I say .. not so easy or cheap to do here ... we are way ahead on full domestic systems and Solar Farms ... but smaller off-grid stuff is really not so easy to source / setup here.

Latvia may be anti-russia etc - but saunas are still highly popular in winter ...

The LiFePo4 I bought for the dinghy .. too big as another warned ... but that's another matter - has built in heating for charge etc. Many of the LiFe batts sold here have this because of our winters.

As to 'bedouin' suggestion of Wind .... not allowed - even though I have plenty of ground to do it - I am within Town Border and its prohibited. Even the Solar would be subject to the rules but being less visual impact - will likely be ignored.

 

[bedouin]

As to 'bedouin' suggestion of Wind .... not allowed - even though I have plenty of ground to do it - I am within Town Border and its prohibited. Even the Solar would be subject to the rules but being less visual impact - will likely be ignored.

Even if you mount it on a boat

 

[Refueler]

Even if you mount it on a boat

Boat - of course allowed.

I was thinking you meant a shore based setup. I had looked actually in the past and is how I found out I cannot install such on the river bank.

 

[bedouin]

Boat - of course allowed.

I was thinking you meant a shore based setup. I had looked actually in the past and is how I found out I cannot install such on the river bank.

Well I did of course, but since that is not possible and there are a couple of boats sitting there