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Here is what I THINK my lithium battery install might look like. I know I need the lithium battery and a DC to DC charger., but not what else I might need. I want to use three charging sources: the Suzuki alternator through the Voltage Sensing Relay so it can charge both the FLA starting...

JBlock Diagram of Lithium Battery Charging System

Benton, If only we COULD send you some of our weather! April, May, and June to date have been cold, wet, and windy, temps maybe 10 degrees below seasonal averages. We were in Arizona until mid-April, so no idea what it was like before that here on the Upper Left Corner. Last night was the first...

Great pics, Colby! I have driven along I-84 that runs just above the Columbia and quite a few of the locks many times, and have looked at the locks with Google Maps satellite view but never have seen them from water level. From above, it was puzzling where exactly they were!

This track looks (abstractly at least) as though someone was under the "alcofluence of incohol" (just kidding of course!)

Jay\'s Track

As I envision it, the LifePO battery will replace the FLA battery bank completely. Everything connected to the prior FLA battery bank will be connected to the LifePO battery, fused of course (most of it already is). One side of the VSR will be connected to the FLA starting battery, and the...

This is lookng more like the right battery for me. $500 and free shipping. It shuts down charging and discharging based on temperature, and it has bluetooth. I guess I don't understand what "DC to DC" and "battery to battery" mean. Are they the same thing or different? I would love to see a...

Can't argue with what you are saying (well, except the Killer Whales, volcanoes, and ferries are actually pluses not minuses). Just sayin'...Mark should test the waters of Florida before he makes a permanent commitment!

Mark, just my opinion, but boating in the Gulf of Mexico does not match boating where you are right now. To quote Kitty Nicolai, "there is actually no water in the Gulf of Mexico and along Florida's west coast - it's all an optical illusion." The water was VERY shallow leaving Apalachicola, it...

I have read Dr. Bob's post and Boris's thread on his install. I understand bits and pieces but there is still too much that I don't understand. I will just lay out my ignorance here and hope the community will fill in the blanks for me! I have a new Suzuki DF200 that has a 54 amp alternator...

Don't recall exactly. They are NAPA Group 27 deep cycle floorded cell marine batteries, I don't think they had amp hours stated. But they have been seriously over-discharged, like down to 6 or 7 volts once when the boat was at West Coast Marine for service and the ARB freezer was accidentally...

We had a great presentation last night at Squalicum Yacht Club on lithium batteries on boats. With the prices dropping, I think this MIGHT just be the next improvement on Daydream. With the freezer running all night, the two flooded cell house batteries routinely drop close to the 50% discharge...

Our C-80 MFD somewhat miraculously recovered and came back to life - and BTW, thanks for plugging the radar back into our C-80 at Friday Harbor, we could not do that for the life of us!

Here are a few photos of Little Bit from Lake Powell in 2014!

Somehow the (LONG) deleted post screwed up the formatting, as it was too wide to display properly!

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Hereis a blog post from a very enjoyable evening on the Erie Canal with Rip and Beth on the Monk 36 Lab Partners. Hopefully you will ge to have evenings like this!

Scott and Barb, Enjoy the Loop! The Rossi will do you well! Hereis a web page by our friends Rip and Beth Tyler who started the Loop on a Monk 36 in 2017 and finished it on a Rossi in 2019! Pat and Patty

Postscript to Friday Harbor - Patrick and Kim on Kim Christine, Brock on Songbird, and Pat and Patty (us) on Daydream enjoyed a wonderful extra day at the dock at Sucia before heading for home today. We introduced Brock to poke (yellowfin tuna marinated in soy sauce and sesane oil and sprinkled...