See our experience learning to sail in the beautiful Algarve waters of Portugal with Learn2Sail. We even spotted dolphins whilst on our sailing course. Student review of our sail school.

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Giorno 13 - ADRIATICO MERIDIONALE Questa notte, come sapete, abbiamo continuato la nostra discesa verso sud. Dopo aver scoperto che Monopoli non faceva per noi, abbiamo continuato fino a Otranto. Mare con onda di poppa, vento di 20/22 nodi che ci spingeva giù e noi abbiamo galoppato solo di genoa alla velocità di 7 nodi in media verso il mattino. Siamo arrivati alle 6:30, facendo un turno a testa. Alle 10:00 avevo un call con un cliente, così finito l’ormeggio sono corso a dormire tre ore. La giornata è passata all’insegna del riposo, della mancanza di energie e del caldo che sta abbrustolendo un po’ tutto lo stivale. Dopo un bagno rigenerante abbiamo lavorato ancora aspettando l’ora di cena. Uno sguardo alla città meravigliosa di Otranto durante la cena e poi di corsa a ripristinare le energie per domani. Ieri e questa notte abbiamo percorso no stop più di 130 miglia 🥵 Ci leggiamo domani! Andrea #sailinglife #vitainbarca #vivereinbarca #vivereinbarcaavela #puglia

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Ive said it once and Ill say it again. If you wait until things are perfect, you will never leave the dock

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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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