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For a while, April Fool was displayed in Treasure Village place on Islamorada, right where the giant lobster used to be before they converted that shopping place to a Montessori school. It was kind of a museum exhibit.

Then buy a small sailboat and train yourself. Seriously.

Why do you worry about it? You have a protected climate controlled pilot house with armchairs and windshield wipers. People in open cockpit sailboats go through the same weather unprotected. Having to remove sails when the squal wind speed happens to be surprising 50 knots instead of 25 that you...

In 2009 I kept my boat at Keys Fisheries Marina for $10 per foot per month, as far as I recall. I heard that since then they stopped allowing liveaboards.

7:00 am to 3:00 pm amounts to 8 hours.

Seems quite restricted to me.

Right. Besides, the question was, how many electrons I can squeeze out of the box. Not what will happen to the box afterwards.

Modern batteries, such as Odyssey, can be discharged to 20% of rated capacity without shortening their life span. State of the art batteries can be discharged even deeper.

Why not 80%?

So you have 6 1.4 kW*h batteries, 8.4 kW*h total, no matter how you wire them.

For me it was at least 30% gain. Likely, more than 30.

Our divorce cost us $400 in Miami (simple dissolution). I was moving out of state for more interesting work, she wanted to stay, so she kept the house and I got the boat. Quite simple and almost completely painless. We even had a vacation together a year after the divorce. The children were...

Good. Almost like an electrocar.

Nor do you have a performance advantage.

I have no problem with a naturally aspirated Lexus GS performance.

Turbos in cars have European taxes to thank. They tax cars according to engine volumes there. I have no idea why anyone would want a turbocharged car in America if they wanted to keep it past 4/50 warranty term. Good bye, BMW.

Actually, specs say it meets Tier 3.

One example of a just released model: http://www.yanmarmarine.com/theme/yanmarportal/uploadedFiles/Marine/productDownloads/Pleasure-datasheet/English/Yanmar-4JH57CommonRail-HR.pdf

Something that I can live on full time, preferably outside of marinas for long stretches (3-6 months at a time). Seasonal migrations from Florida/Bahamas to New England with occasional trips to Puerto Rico and the islands, if possible. Most likely I will not have help operating the boat, i. e...

If you cannot steer the boat with the helm at certain conditions, I suppose an autopilot will be ineffective at similar conditions. With my last sailboat, I needed more than a knot or a knot and a half of boat speed to turn into a slip. Incidentally, the same minimum speed was needed for an...

I am a scientist, so I don't listen to salesmen at all.

Can you turn your boat into a slip in a marina with a narrow fairway without using differential steering or thrusters?

There was a guy next to my slip with some kind of a two engine express cruiser. Once in a while he would return on one engine, and he could not turn into his slip without being pulled with dock lines by helpers. I don't think a boat like that will steer well in moderate sea conditions at low...

I will, thank you. Should probably start another thread.

So, is it safe to say that the class of boats that includes Carvers and Sea Rays cannot be trusted with an autopilot maintaining a course in moderate conditions at 6-7 knots?