What I found most fascinating reading this was the bit about the solar panels. Whenever I buy a house one day, I will want to buy solar panels to help with being more efficient.
So cool, T! I learned so much reading this. Sounds like you have a great setup!
We still have to redo the battery & solar panel situation on the boat. That’s my husband’s task, but now I’ll know what we’re doing. Haha. We’re going to be super limited though because we’ll only have solar, so hopefully we can keep the necessities running (no fridge, no AC, and still perhaps only 1 MacBook charge each per day 😬)
Thanks man, but no fridge? That’s crazy, how are you going to manage? Perhaps the lower deck is fresh enough?
Tbh, given that you’ll be on a boat, you’ll get more sun than we do, we just get a couple or even 3 solar panels and a big enough battery, you’ll be more than fine. Our single small capacity panel is the only thing we use and it keeps our batteries at 80%+ all year long even when we don’t drive, so you’ll be fine! You’ll also adapt your usage like we have :)
Yea! Thanks for the vote of confidence. That’s good to know about your solar panels. It’s all about adaptation. We can put ice in the ‘fridge’ and it’s so well insulated it’ll keep things cool for awhile. Also, some deeper netherregions of the boat will be much closer to the ocean temp, since they are surrounded by ocean. haha.
There are also all sorts of tricks to make food last longer! Like, eggs can be stored at room temp for weeks. Certain meats and veggies can be maintained for days & days (sometimes weeks). We’ll also have fresh fish — we hope. But the big thing for many sailors on long trips are canned foods — even canned meats. It doesn’t sound great, but my job is to learn tricks to make the food taste interesting and delicious (I already bought a book haha). I’m confident!
And if all else fails, we’ll eat out on the deck and look at the view :)
What I found most fascinating reading this was the bit about the solar panels. Whenever I buy a house one day, I will want to buy solar panels to help with being more efficient.
So cool man! Yeah I haven’t read anything about it online so I thought it’s a must :)
Plus, on a van it’s flat mounted and we’re not somewhere sunny all year so efficiency is crucial!
So cool, T! I learned so much reading this. Sounds like you have a great setup!
We still have to redo the battery & solar panel situation on the boat. That’s my husband’s task, but now I’ll know what we’re doing. Haha. We’re going to be super limited though because we’ll only have solar, so hopefully we can keep the necessities running (no fridge, no AC, and still perhaps only 1 MacBook charge each per day 😬)
Thanks man, but no fridge? That’s crazy, how are you going to manage? Perhaps the lower deck is fresh enough?
Tbh, given that you’ll be on a boat, you’ll get more sun than we do, we just get a couple or even 3 solar panels and a big enough battery, you’ll be more than fine. Our single small capacity panel is the only thing we use and it keeps our batteries at 80%+ all year long even when we don’t drive, so you’ll be fine! You’ll also adapt your usage like we have :)
Yea! Thanks for the vote of confidence. That’s good to know about your solar panels. It’s all about adaptation. We can put ice in the ‘fridge’ and it’s so well insulated it’ll keep things cool for awhile. Also, some deeper netherregions of the boat will be much closer to the ocean temp, since they are surrounded by ocean. haha.
There are also all sorts of tricks to make food last longer! Like, eggs can be stored at room temp for weeks. Certain meats and veggies can be maintained for days & days (sometimes weeks). We’ll also have fresh fish — we hope. But the big thing for many sailors on long trips are canned foods — even canned meats. It doesn’t sound great, but my job is to learn tricks to make the food taste interesting and delicious (I already bought a book haha). I’m confident!
And if all else fails, we’ll eat out on the deck and look at the view :)