This Fountaine Pajot New 41 Sailing Catamaran ( mast not stepped yet) is the first New 41 to the West Coast of North America. Attention California, Oregon, Washington State, Mexico or Canada clients,… This boat is for sale now. $965,941.00 Contact Dave Brotherton at 619-913-7834 Dave.brotherton@ACY-YACHTS.COM Dave.Brotherton@fountainepajotdealer

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1) Understanding your energy needs is essential to determine how much solar you need. Start by making an "energy budget". List all your consumers and their daily usage. For example, if your LED lights use 1W per bulb and you have eight bulbs on for 5 hours a day, that would be 8 Watts for 5 hours or (8x5) 40 Wh (Watt hours). I like to use kWh to keep things consistent. 40 Wh = 0.040 kWh. It's a good idea to list what you're using while at anchor and another list of what you're using while underway (for instance, you don't use your autopilot at anchor). Remember to list everything: fridge, freezer, watermaker, autopilot, nav lights, chart plotters, etc. For example, here aboard Athena, with an electric galley, fridge, freezer, watermaker, two computers, etc, we use an average of 5.5 kWh per day. 2) To give you a quick estimate, use https://globalsolaratlas.info/ to find "Global horizontal irradiation" per day for your location. Take your daily energy consumption from step 1 and divide that by the number of solar hours. In the case of Athena, located in the Caribbean, that would be 5.5kWh per day / 5 sun hours = 1.1 kW solar array. Keep in mind that this is a theoretical number that does not take into account the shading or degradation of the panels over time. Let's add 30%. 1.1 x 1.3 = 1.43 kW. You can now divide that number by the panel's Nominal Power output. In the case of Athena, our panels are 400W SunPower panels. 1430W / 400W = 3.6 panels needed to cover our 5.5 kWh per day consumption. 3) Understand that the amount of solar you can install on a small sailboat is limited by the size of the boat and heavily influenced by shading and, of course, the boat's location. The size of the panels might also be defined by the height of your stanchions or the size of an existing solar arch. Figure out where you're able and willing to install panels. That will dictate the size and number of panels. 4) Use Victron Energy's MPPT Calculator to calculate what MPPT is ideally sized for your solar panels and expected output based on location. Based on our experience in the Caribbean, the estimate provided by the guide is reasonable. https://www.victronenergy.com/mppt-calculator. Remember that it's best practice to avoid combining panels with different specs on the same MPPT. #sailboat #sailboatproject #boatwork #saillife #liveaboard #liveaboardlife #saltlife #sailing #sailingadventure #travel ingcouple #livingonaboat #solar #sailboatsolar

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Doublement primé European Yacht Of the Year et Boat Of the Year aux Etats-Unis, l'Outremer 51 est le catamaran de voyage de référence pour les familles autour du monde. Plus d'informations sur le modèle ici : https://catamaran-outremer.com/fr/outremer-51/ - Twice awarded European Yacht of the Year and Boat of the Year in the United States, The Outremer 51 is the benchmark cruising catamaran for families around the world. More information about the model here: https://catamaran-outremer.com/en/outremer51/

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⛵ Questa barca non è per tutti… È per chi cerca il massimo, senza compromessi. 🎯 Beneteau Oceanis 54 Ogni accessorio che immagini... è già a bordo. Comfort, tecnologia, spazio: tutto è al suo posto. Ti aspettiamo a bordo! 👉 Guarda il video completo qui: 📺 https://youtu.be/IImIjGgFvFs 📞 Chiamaci al +39 0112457841 💬 Manda un messaggio WhatsApp: https://wa.me/393421432715 📨 Scrivi ad info@abayachting.com 🌐 Visita il nostro sito https://www.abayachting.com 🔔 Iscriviti al canale per non perdere le prossime video-visite! #beneteauoceanis54 #abayachting #sailyacht #barcheinvendita #yachtlife #eleganzainmare #veladiqualità #instasail #reelyacht #boatexperience #brokerage #yachtbrokerage

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Frank is heralded as a Victron ambassador to the UK. If you know anything about off grid electronics, you know Victron is pretty much the best option to go with.

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