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Boat building of a version of Thunderhead 49 foot with Mexican wood. You can find Subscribe button in the description below! Acerca Este proyecto consiste en construir una versión del velero de 49 pies Rhodes Abeking & Rasmussen Cutter Thunderhead en la selva del Caribe mexicano. Es un proyecto único: • El único canal de construcción de veleros en México • Construido con excelente madera obtenida responsablemente en sitio • Un famoso y muy rápido velero de mar abierto • En algún lugar de la selva caribeña mexicana Nos basaremos en tecnologías y métodos basados en el libro “Como construir un bote de madera” de Bud McIntosh e influenciados por otros constructores de barcos. Queremos inspirar a tanta gente como sea posible a lo largo de nuestra aventura. Acompáñanos y déjanos contagiarte con nuestra energía, empatía, conocimientos y dedicación para hacer este proyecto una realidad. Si deseas colaborar o integrarte de alguna manera con este proyecto, por favor envíanos un correo electrónico a jungleranch@hotmail.com. ¡Por favor apóyanos con un Like y Suscríbete! Por ahora somos el único canal mexicano de YouTube dedicado a la construcción de un velero. Los gastos son muy elevados, si lo deseas, apóyanos donando 50-100 MXN o 5-10 US$ al número de cuenta: Interbancario: 014694606317123599 (Mexico) Paypal: jungleranch@outlook.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565906427383 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Junglernch70

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

