Taking wind gen up and down

[Neeves]

But surely the average family having a two week cruise, can manage fine without a "desalinator, induction hob etc etc".

Much depends on the size of your water tanks and whether you shower twice daily. You can do without the induction hob but then you will, probably, use gas and part of the motivation for many is to reduce one's environmental foot print and make your yacht safer. As has been pointed out on a, much, earlier thread an induction hot plate can be used in the cockpit, where you can sit and admire the view - instead of eating in a crypt. There seems a contradiction if you sail for days to reach a destination and when you arrive you are restricted to the gloom of a pokey chapel with no view of the destination. Furthermore induction cooking does not create vast volumes of heat - a decided negative if you use gas in the Med, Caribbean or some parts of Australia.

My etc etc would include a decent fridge and a separate deep freeze. You need the latter for the lobster, abalone and tuna. (Fray Bentos meat pies are so very 1960s)

I can dispense with the wine cellar and replace with malt whisky slightly diluted with soft water straight from the burn at room temperature. (NO! ice)......

Jonathan

 

[toothless]

It seems the dream for a family of 4 to live off grid, or have 2 weeks holiday off grid, and enjoy the benefits of today's technology, desalinator, induction hob, etc etc has nothing to do with the cost of solar - it could be free - but unless you have a 44' yacht - you cannot fit the solar (and have a yacht that you can still sensibly sail).

Jonathan

My cat is 28ft

 

[geem]

Much depends on the size of your water tanks and whether you shower twice daily. You can do without the induction hob but then you will, probably, use gas and part of the motivation for many is to reduce one's environmental foot print and make your yacht safer. As has been pointed out on a, much, earlier thread an induction hot plate can be used in the cockpit, where you can sit and admire the view - instead of eating in a crypt. There seems a contradiction if you sail for days to reach a destination and when you arrive you are restricted to the gloom of a pokey chapel with no view of the destination. Furthermore induction cooking does not create vast volumes of heat - a decided negative if you use gas in the Med, Caribbean or some parts of Australia.

My etc etc would include a decent fridge and a separate deep freeze. You need the latter for the lobster, abalone and tuna. (Fray Bentos meat pies are so very 1960s)

I can dispense with the wine cellar and replace with malt whisky slightly diluted with soft water straight from the burn at room temperature. (NO! ice)......

Jonathan

Who showers twice a day! I didn't even do that at home!
People have already shared their experiences on this thread explaining how they cruise with far less solar than me, and it still works fine.
You can probably have a very nice solar arch built, if you want to go that way, for the cost of a high output wind turbine. You could then install as much solar as you want.

 

[mrming]

My neighbour in the next marina berth has a rusty old Rutland on the back. It makes a hell of a racket. I’m kind of looking forward to it disintegrating, but obviously the bits might hit my boat.

 

[geem]

My neighbour in the next marina berth has a rusty old Rutland on the back. It makes a hell of a racket. I’m kind of looking forward to it disintegrating, but obviously the bits might hit my boat.

My neighbour, years ago, had a brand new Rutland. A big storm came through the harbour and that sorted that out nicely

 

[Neeves]

My cat is 28ft

You are lucky and part of a select few with taste. If there were more, many, many more of us we might have a dedicated section of YBW

 

[Neeves]

Who showers twice a day! I didn't even do that at home!

I take it you don't have granddaughters.

We have 5 granddaughters and if we wanted them to enjoy sailing, not all at once, we pander to some of their desires. 'Sailing' need not be an SAS test. If you have the water, have the amps - why not indulge them - then they come back.

Jonathan