Nous avons fait notre premier essai de spi sous un temps Breton. Bonne réaction de Pierrick et de l'équipage. Les prochains essais seront avec, nous l'espérons, plus d'air...

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C'è ritmo, c'è velocità in queste immagini da "corsa" di Italia in Oceano. Gaetano è soddisfato, parla il suo sorriso. Non servono le parole.

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Just sailing 🌊 …………………………………..⛵️ …………………………………… #sailing #boat #ocean #sailinglife #yachting #sea #yacht #sailingyacht #colinarcher #veleiro #whisky #whiskey #segeln #veleiro #velero #voilier #segelboot #barcaavela #ヨット #sirenssip #maturedundersail #dutch #holland #nederland #zeilen #zeilboot #adventure #travel #traveling

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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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Ahoy All, It's time to cast your votes for the 2nd Annual International Cruisers Awards.The International Cruisers Awards were created by the Young Cruisers Association as a way to highlight and reward cruisers for their hard work in content creation as well as shine a light on outstanding individuals in the cruising culture. This year we are in consideration of the best YouTube Channel of 2023 in the cruising genre & best YouTube episode of 2023 in the cruising genre. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SO here is how it works... -Click on the link below https://youngcruisers.org/awards -Vote for WE|Sail in either category (Best YouTube Video & Best YouTube Episode) -Confirm your Vote in your email ***if you don't confirm the vote it won't count*** Voting ends on October 1st, so please be sure to vote now! Thank you everyone who follows and supports the adventures of WE! Cheers, WE

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