Practical Sailor Sea-trials 1,000-watt Honda Gas Generator
Bluewater voyagers and Practical Sailor contributors Evans Starzinger and Beth Leonard put the Honda EU1001 gas-powered generator, Hondas smallest super quiet four-stroke generator, through...
Wanted: A DC-DC Converter
Ive created a 24-volt system by connecting two 200-amp-hour 12-volt batteries in series to drive an electric outboard as auxiliary power for our 25-foot...
S/V Balaena Skipper Andy O’Grady Offers Advice on Extending the Life of Wet-Cell Batteries
Photos by Andy O’Grady
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While building Balæna, I was sure that we would never need a large battery capacity. With no electronic navigation aids and...
Troubleshooting AC Units
I have an air-conditioning unit with more than 14,000 BTUs. Here in Florida, with a 38-foot boat, that just doesn’t hack it. The unit’s...
Solo Sailor’s Gear Box
The 30th anniversary of the Singlehanded TransPac (SHTP), which starts July 12, includes an entry list of widely diverse designs with most of the...
The future of marine propulsion? Practical Sailor sea-trials the portable Torqeedo Travel 801L electric...
Three things attracted us to the long-shaft Torqeedo: It is a light motor; it is a portable motor; and it is an electric motor....
Practical Sailor Tests Spray-On Protection for Electronics and Electrical Systems
Seawater and electricity love each other with a fatal attraction, and when they break barriers to get to each other, we suffer from the...
Xantrex’s New XC Line are Multiplex Masters
To put it mildly, the battery test on the previous pages presented a recharging nightmare. Ideally, what we needed was an intelligent multi-bank battery...
Deep Cycle Marine Battery Test
Updated April 11, 2017
The term lead acid battery usually conjures up the image of a standard flooded cell battery commonly found in cars and...
PS Advisor: 01/06
Saildrive CorrosionI purchased a 1983 Sweden 41 in September, 1999. Since that time I have had to purchase three saildrives because of corrosion. I...
The Great Loop – The Basics
Join us this week as we discuss taking a sailboat around North America's great boating adventure - The Great Loop. We discuss advice from...
