Features
December 2008 Issue
Practical Sailor Sea-trials 1,000-watt Honda Gas Generator
Honda’s ‘Super Quiet’ compact generator winters in Southern Chile with ocean voyagers Evans Starzinger and Beth Leonard.
Bluewater voyagers and Practical Sailor contributors Evans Starzinger and Beth Leonard put the Honda EU1001 gas-powered generator, Honda’s smallest “super quiet” four-stroke generator, through its paces during an extended cruise of Southern Chile. They report that the 1,000-watt generator is well engineered and essentially maintenance free. Wanting to go months without running the engine and unable to depend on wind and solar power in Chile’s Beagle Channel, the couple chose the lightweight generator to feed their onboard battery-charging needs. The Honda will run for approximately eight hours on less than a gallon of gas, and its noise level was measured at a mere 59 decibels, quieter than normal conversation.
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