What stench? With a properly running genset there is little or no stench. Unless you are right on top of the exhaust outlet.
Wifey B: We have no stench...hey...a slogan. This wench has no stench.
What stench? With a properly running genset there is little or no stench. Unless you are right on top of the exhaust outlet.
Not too surprised my technique did not work down there. Up here in NC night time temps usually around 78F. In Sfla it can be 83F. My upper limit for happy sleep is 80F with low humidity. So if I dry out my boat and outside is 78, all good. Not so if it is 83.
It's been cooler than normal here. It was too cold to open both pilothouse doors.
Have you ever parked next to one of these? Run your genny as long and often as you please!
Funny how when I grew up in FL, we didn't have AC and I slept and survived just fine even during afternoon naps. Try thinking of living in bunk beds in a wooden bunkhouse in Sanford FL during the summer. The bathroom was an outhouse. We took baths in a lake...freshwater lake. This was 6 weeks of summer camp of course. But until I was 12 or so, we slept without AC.
Now in my old age after having been thoroughly conditioned by AC, I would have a cardiac arrest without it.
We are spoiled in our old age! But, we can survive without it if we really had to.
If your gen is quiet outside and you've anchored away from others as best as can, I say, run and run it and run it how you like. Many sailboaters have no problem letting their halyards bang in the wind or letting their wind generators whistle all day and night.
I go out of my way in most cases to be courteous to other boaters. But as to turning it off before going to sleep, not me in south FL or other places further south in the summer that's for sure.
You're never going to please everybody. Heck I've heard people complain about not the exhaust gas sound but the splashing sound the exhaust water can make. Or even the splashing sound the A/C cooling water can make. I mean really? You're on a boat and you have a problem with the sound of water splashing!?
*"Even less than their talk and sex with their windows all open."
Ok, that's just wrong! Lol
Wifey B: Might be wrong...well talk and sex aren't wrong.... But I've been amazed at people at anchor and at marinas who open all the windows and apparently never crosses their mind you can hear everything. Some have embarrassed innocent lil me.
I guess I just don't get it?
Here in Florida,
Frankly I just don't see the problem with a little noise. If I really want solitude, I'd anchor out by myself...l
In Alaska, during commercial fishing/crabbing season, the commercial guys run their generators 24/7's, at anchor and a lot of thime at the dock. I've yet but would love to see a rec. boater ask them to shut their generators off.
On a boat the best one can hope for is water temperature inside , which in most places with a bunk fan is fine for sleeping .
If you could sleep with that then fine for you. We're conditioned to air conditioning (or heat) and can't. Similarly we have refrigerators and freezers full of food.