What BBQ?? and other things.....

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So... Having purchased our wonderful boat and had the servicing, antifouling and a bit of work done, we now have to kit it out.

1) BBQ... Gas.. Folding.. Portable... Large size for big family/friends
2) Duvets or sleeping bags... Still can't decide. Being a girlie I want it all matching.. Kids want sleeping bags, hubby and I want duvet.
3) Hubby is a coffee addict and won't drink instant. :rolleyes: He wants a coffee machine... :confused:
4) Microwave... Undecided....
5) Television.. ? with portable satelite dish thingie.. :D

So thoughts and advice from travelled forumites please. :D

Oh forgot to say... cheap is great, but quality is also a factor...
 
1/ Gas BBQ will run off your Boat cylinder, and be much cleaner/ faster to heat up. Also cheap enough to find and compact to stow.

2/ Duvet in your front cabin, probably same again in the underfloor room, as they're nice warm lined rooms by Boat standards. The blighters in the rear might want sleeping bags though. It can get draughty!

3/ With no mains power, get a stove top Espresso maker, or Bodrum press thingy. He'll get the coffee anytime anyplace!

4/ Microwave? No. Not required. Choose food which suits the cooking facilities you have!

5/ TV: We use a widescreen digital TV/DVD with an iPod dock built in. Brilliant picture with a normal aerial, loads of Freeview channels, and when there is none, we can play stored media on the 64Gb iPhone. Absolutely brilliant solution, as it all runs off 12V, and the sound is 'Sound dock' quality unlike other small TV's, so really good quality. Also does CD's and DVD's but the iPhone beats them! It plays the iPhone video too!! £199 at Comet last year :D

I wouldn't want to mess around with satellite stuff, nor put it all away afterwards...:(



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buy a CObb !

BBQ. Gas ? No. Have you thought of a Cobb ?

Lots of us have them, and they are the knees of the honeygatherer, and give the pack leader every opportunity for showing his culinary skills !


I think someone here has a web site devoted to them.


This is their commercial site.

http://www.cobb-bbq.co.uk/


Also, just in case the gas runs out and the electricity fails, you have an independent source of cooking and hot water.
 
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sarabande said:
BBQ. Gas ? No. Have you thought of a Cobb ?

Lots of us have them, and they are the knees of the honeygatherer, and give the pack leader every opportunity for showing his culinary skills !


I think someone here has a web site devoted to them.


This is their commercial site.

http://www.cobb-bbq.co.uk/


Also, just in case the gas runs out and the electricity fails, you have an independent source of cooking and hot water.
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Are they big enough to cook for at least 6 people? I did look at a couple of ads and it looks good, just not sure of the size. Theres also the cost of the briquettes to consider.. It does seem to have a lot of cooking options though... Decisions decisions.. lol
 
wait around a bit. I am sure the CObb King will turn up soon.

I've done a whole chicken plus roast spuds in one. Perhaps use it in combination with the gas cooker ?
 
No Regrets said:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/ctg/UMC-19-36-19-HD-LCD-Television-/99292064#

A 19" above, or a 22" below!

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5296998.htm


Both at an astonishing £129 each!! Ours is the UMC which plays Youtube, Films etc as well as the iPhone music, but I'm not sure about the larger one.

You may wish to buy a small cheap inverter to power them from your batteries. Reckon around £10-20, you only need around 150Watts.
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Wattage is something that confuses me. Isn't 150W quite a lot for a boat?
 
JKay said:
They do a smaller more compact version thats better for boating but I think your on the money Honey with those(and I've got a Cobb which I do not rate)
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Thanks for that. It's difficult as most things I am having to find online and can't actually see the size.
 
Magnette said:
For coffee there is nothing that beats one of these
http://www.presso.co.uk/
That includes all the whizzy expresso makers
and the joy is it uses no power
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I saw these ages ago. Expensive for a coffee. Perhaps he can put it on his Xmas list. :) We have a stove top so that will do for now. I am happy with instant, so this will be a luxury item later on for hubby. Lol
 
No Regrets said:
An inverter turns 12volts into 240 volts.

Small inverters such as a 150W will run off a couple of large leisure batteries for hours without problem.
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Hours is good... But.... I am going to tell the kids that it will only run for one hour a day after at least five hours cruising.
:D
 
Invertors.

When you buy that TV make sure that the 240v AC voltage convertor is one that gives 12V to power TV.There are many that run on "funny" voltages ie. 14v or 18v.
This means you cannot run them direct from your boat batteries via perhaps the cigar lighter type sockets found on most modern boats.
Enables you watch TV anywhere on boat from front bedroom to upstairs .
If you get something with odd volts you will be forced to use invertor,these are greedy power hungry devices and will gobble up nearly as much power as your telly when used,so flattening your boat batteries much faster.
Your invertor will use power when merely on,even when nothing is attached to it drawing current.
 
Boatones quick intro to leckery. watts and stuff.......

Assuming boat batteries are 12volts then a draw of 12watts will drain 1 amp in 1 hour - so 150 watts - approx 12.5 amps in 1 hour.

To put this in perspective a 12v 25watt light bulb will use 2 amps per hour.

General rule for charging from engine alternators is that , without special charging arrangements you are unlikely to recharge above 85% capacity even after long hours running. It is good practice not to discharge below 50% if you want your batteries to give good service life.

So, that means you have approx 35% useable battery capacity - i.e. 100Amp/hour battery is actually worth 35Amp/hours useable power.

Watts are watts whether at 12volts or at 240volts AC if you are going to use an inverter - have you got one? (nifty devices that let you run AC appliances from DC supply). Good reason for NOT having a microwave unless you have LOADS of battery power is that an 800watt microwave will draw approx 70 amps and needs really thick cables to carry that current.

So, check all your appliances and see what their Watts rating is - divide by 12 and that will give you amps - multiply that by time you use it for and that is amp/hours. Add everything up that you might use - or want to use - in a 24 hour period and you can calculate how big your domestic battery capacity needs to be. Almost everyone has too little !!! ( I have 300Amp/hours = 3 x 100 )

Heaviest drains will be fridges - depending on model can easily be 30-40 amps over 24 hours (consider turning off when you go to bed and on again as soon as you wake up), followed by TV's, 12volt tungsten lighting. Laptops, mobile phones, ipods etc take very little.

Hope this is helpful.
 
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