Generator usage

Bouba said:
Ha, I started with a Honda suitcase on the swim platform. But I had people literally begging me to stop and when I did other boaters clapped. You have no idea how antisocial you are about to become:)
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Only for running the microwave for a few minutes if necessary rather than leaving the wretched thing on all night, in fact, it's not really worth bothering to take it for the odd night at anchor or a mooring at our favourite spot, Collioure. Unlike some aerosol on the next pontoon one night last summer - Fairline - how he slept through it I don't know! We reported him to the Capitainerie and they shifted him to the other end of the marina … presumably to annoy a different bunch of boat owners there!
 
Diesel heater is something that inceases the number of days you spend at your boat = betters your ROI. My yearly boating budget is around EUR 120.000 (including the depreciation). If I spend 10 days at the boat every year, cost per day is EUR 12.000. If I spend 100 days, it falls to EUR 1.200 (ummgh, still too much I think :) ). Easy math. (In 2018 I slept 97 nights at the boat by the way). So gaining days in winter time is big plus. In winter also, I spend around 20-30 days at the boat, thanks to the comfort provided by the diesel heater. All other solutions come with problem, as one of which you are living now.
 
Kingfisher 5 said:
I haven't got a generator so when we go down for a couple of days in the Winter we stay firmly plugged in to the pontoon! I have got a Honda 2.0 genny left over from motor racing days so think in the Summer I might take it along for when we're anchored and stick it on the swim platform.
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Running a portable petrol generator on the swim platform may be quite dangerous due to the risk of CO poisoning from exhaust fumes being blown into the boat interior.
 
Bouba said:
Porto, it’s exactly as you described. The cold air makes the vapour noticeable just like a car exhaust in winter. We use it mainly for the electric heaters, to charge everything including phone and to make hot drinks. I just want to get a sense of what the forum would do on a dead calm night. I also would never sleep with the genny on.
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What have you bought that gennie for if not to use it whenever you want to? And as for leaving it running all night, you can rest assured that all those 100ft+ superyachts anchored in the SoF are running their generators all day and all night and they're chucking out a whole lot more nasty emissions than your gennie. Personally I dont often run my gennie all night but occasionally I do and I certainly dont stress about doing it
 
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What have you bought that gennie for if not to use it whenever you want to? And as for leaving it running all night, you can rest assured that all those 100ft+ superyachts anchored in the SoF are running their generators all day and all night and they're chucking out a whole lot more nasty emissions than your gennie. Personally I dont often run my gennie all night but occasionally I do and I certainly dont stress about doing it
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Thanks Mike, I was hoping that’s what everyone thought. It was just such a calm night I could just see myself enveloped in a cloud of fumes:disgust:
 
Bouba said:
Thanks Mike, I was hoping that’s what everyone thought. It was just such a calm night I could just see myself enveloped in a cloud of fumes:disgust:
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Believe me, all the yotties around you may be muttering into their beards about your gennie but secretly they all wish they had one;)
 
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Believe me, all the yotties around you may be muttering into their beards about your gennie but secretly they all wish they had one;)
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I’m so proud of my new generator that I send out a semaphore message when I’m ready to switch it on:)
 
vas said:
obviously in turns, wouldn't be easy to fit 37ppl in a swift trawler 34, would be about all you can fit in terms of ppl standing in decks and salon I recon :p
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What he means is that he doesn’t have a generator at all, just a humungous hamster wheel with 37 potential illegal immigrants running for all they’re worth hoping to get the boat across the channel. :). They’re probably ex Macron supporters looking for cheaper fuel :encouragement:
 
Just reading this thread when the latest edition of MB&Y mag drops through the letterbox. On the front cover it says "Ditch your Generator!" lol.:eek:
 
Yes, it’s always Porquerolles for us, anything more would require my crew to agree on a long boat trip:)
I would say about 25% of restaurants open but it’s always surprising how many visitors the island gets even in the middle of winter. The ferries are always running. The short stay pontoons are also quite full but there is always space although the boat mix favours yachts over motorboats this time of year.
The seas (and sky) have been wonderful these past few days and we are discussing whether to spend another night here
 
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