Aquair watergenerator
South Pacific Familyadventure 2008
Claes Brodin
Sun 16 Sep 2012 07:49
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Convert the Ampair to watermode and you have an
extremely efficient charging system for passages.When doing 4 knots or more we
have allways been selfsufficient in terms of electricity out at sea,suppling all
needs on a crusier of today(eg. refrigerator,nav.lights,laptops
etc).
Cruisers with this equipment normally brings a
sparepropeller,and so did we.When downwindsailing in heavy winds/surfing at high
speed,the propeller can start to "jump" and subsequently create a mess of the
propellerrope,in which case you have to stop the boat(heave to?) and sort the
mess out.It happened to us when downwindsailing to the San Blas islands as well
as when sailing downwind in heavy winds from Palmerston to Tonga.It´s a dreaded
scenario that can be tricky to sort out(in worst case you have to cut the
rope).We never lost a propeller though.
If you need a chargingsystem for
oceanpassages,Aquair is highly recomended.
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