We had to do all this in 1980 for the Bermuda race. We made a double lower
companionway board that had a wide outer layer that pressed against the cabin
instead of the wood frame and the same for an upper board. The lower board was
tied in place offshore all the time and the upper board could be
I was looking at the new requirements which can be downloaded as a
spreadsheet here:
https://www.ussailing.org/ser-2019-0/
I have questions about whether older C&C's meet the Requirements 2.1.1 and
2.1.3 for "Coastal" and "Ocean" racing. I don't fully understand some of
the terminology.
2.1.1 A
Don, You would have to energize the windlass circuit to be able to hook to them
and charge your battery bank. Mine has a magnetic switch like a solenoid and
uses power to hold the switch closed. Yours may just be a switch.
I would want to have a fused dedicated circuit for your solar. Better op
I think you would be better off running a separate duplex wire back to the
controller near the batteries. It’s a long run, so the size of the wire will
depend on the current.
Let’s assume a 25 ft length of duplex wire, then that's 50 ft of wire both
ways. The tables for a 3% voltage drop re
You'll want a solar controller attached to the battery cables and mounted
in a clean dry location. You could then make a pigtail with connector to
lead to your solar panels.
PM for other thoughts/details.
Josh Muckley
S/V Sea Hawk
1989 C&C 37+
Solomons, MD
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 10:40 AM DON JONS
FWIW, if you need to patch an active leak below the water line, get some JB
Weld WaterWeld from an auto parts store. It will cure in the presence of
water. There are other similar products. Search for pool repair epoxy,
etc. Keep a tube on your boat.
Also keep a couple of toilet bowl wax rings
Hi Don,
I don’t think you want the full windlass load to go through your solar charge
controller. So, I would think, that putting the controller between the solar
panels and the long windlass cables would be a way to go.
I would think hard about how you are going to protect these long wires fro
Hi folks I am off to climb Everest for a couple of months do you think you
could unsubscribe me to these emails thank you
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 07:40 DON JONSSON via CnC-List
wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Sort of a weird question, but hopefully someone has some insight.
>
> We have been struggling with
Hi All
Sort of a weird question, but hopefully someone has some insight.
We have been struggling with where to put solar panels on our C&C 34. We now
think that we will get a couple of flexible panels and leave them free, at
least for now. The plan would be to put them out on the fore deck wh
I’m with Joe on this. I considered carbon but the $800-1000 extra cost was not
worth it. The key for me is that I can store the line control whisker pole
attached to the mast, so I don’t ever have to pick it up, thus the extra weight
of the aluminum version is not a problem. Dave
S/V Aries
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