Good for you for saving a wood boat, I lost a great boat when I sold it to a guy who did not understand wood maintenance. Got married, moved and couldn't take it to Oregon. Two years after sale in Marina del Rey, Ca., it was just not a yacht, new owner let it go to rot. One of the Mc Innes "Coaster" class #5, built in Costa Mesa for me in 1974. Sold through a broker, to a new boater !!! I raced in the wooden boat series, against Herishoff 28s. Soloed the islands and Newport, Ca. where I was a guest Of John Wayne on Wild goose. he saw me come in and waved me over for a bit, great guy.
Yeah, in reminiscing, also had hull #45 Cal 27, half ton cup racer, but never raced. Bought just six months before Windsong, and sold that fast to go for my beloved wood hull in '73. So, yes I can see the work and beauty in wood, fell in love with it on Peggy Slater (yacht broker) Kettenberg 45, and a PC class racer owned by a friend, the famous "Pirate", boating is a full time hobby, and love in one.
I guess that makes me a traditionalist, and many of the overblown plastic big bucks yachts leave me cold. likewise the Chlorox bottles seen in the marinas, lines all ahoo !, varnish and paint or jel coat peeling, looking like wrecks before their time. I have backed out of wood boat shows with mine this year, if not in proper show condition, they stay home. Busting it with painting etc., just cosmetics, but that is the way I roll. Read Arthur Bisers books, Michael Ruhlmans -Wooden Boats, maybe some Hiscock, Don street, or Wooden Boats mag. Some wood boats in those books were also saved, and good for them too.
I have a sign – "If God loved fiberglass boats, He would have planted fiberglass trees " – in my boat shop.
Many opinions, many choices, none are wrong for the owners ------ Cal
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Did the Math, and bucks, and looking less like a barge - NO - 48v. panel controller and panels-- my next step !
Thems fightin words Cal. lol
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and as someone who you might characterize as having a yetchy solar barge I can tell you from experience that the majority of people we meet think it looks awesome, a pretty big percentage are simply indifferent, and the very,very few that are somehow offended by it are usually sailors that think I wrecked a perfectly good sailboat, which as a devoted sailor myself, I wouldn't argue with except for the fact that the 30 year old wooded rigging was rotting to pieces when I got the boat and I basically saved it from becoming an artificial reef. So my conscience is clear on that matter.
As for marinas excluding you for having too many solar panels, I have found the exact opposite. Since our budget precludes staying in marinas during our extensive solar powered travels and we almost always hang off the hook, we are frequently offered complimentary dockage because people are so interested in what we've done.
Cleaning the panels has never been an issue except for the occasional bird bomb which you would clean off your dodger or bimini too and I have never found wind to be the slightest issue. And they work surprising well in partly cloudy weather. And the panels offered great shade on sunny days.
An aesthetic objection to solar is idiotic in my opinion, even for the most obnoxious of applications. Some people think they are beautiful, a very few think they are ugly and personally I just think they ARE WHAT THEY ARE, (a source of free electricity to run my boat). As the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright once commented, "Form follows function" .
Capt. "dweeb" Carter
www.shipofimagination.com
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