Hello All,
Has anyone installed a wind generator on their boat? How
about some details. Type, mounting, etxc. Although our consumption is
fairly low we still need to run the darn engine once a day for
recovery, when away from the dock. It gets annoying.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
Hello All,
Has anyone installed a wind generator on their boat? How
about some details. Type, mounting, etxc. Although our consumption is
fairly low we still need to run the darn engine once a day for
recovery, when away from the dock. It gets annoying.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
Russ and Carol
s/v Pelagic
Kemah, TX
Russ,
we have a haul-up-in-the-rigging Wind Bugger. We haul it up the inner fore
stay and lower it through the forward hatch onto our double berth when
underway.
I considered permanent mounting ideas for smaller machines (but found this
one 2nd hand). The mounts I had conjured up were over the bookin.
One idea: vertical off the aft tip with two 45 deg braces attached somewhere
along the length of each boomkin arm.
Another idea: run a tube parallel to the backstay (mounting plate near
backstay erminal on boomkin); tube goes up along backstay, then bends aft at
45 deg to vertical, then vertical where it support the machine.
Just ideas… never tested.
The 'bugger was a real asset in the Bahamas - we had more juice than we knew
what to do with (we had an engine drive reefer). We used to turn all of the
lights on at night to keep the batteries from charging too fast, and often
had to shut the thing down to prevent overcharge. Further south, however, it
was less useful. The anchorages in the lewards and windwards are in the lees
of towering islands which effective reduce/block the trades (compared to the
flat Bahamas).
Regards,
Jeremy