[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > someone explain to me why sailors, who motor 90% of the time, are so > cheap about battery consumption.? Damn, buy a honda generator, and plug > in a friggn light once in a while, you will sleep bettter knowing some > jerk out there at nite in a Jet ski may see ya.
I don't motor 90% of the time, in fact I seldom motor at all. But I AM very cheap about energy consumption, because I hate running gas generators or motors. Besides, you don't need a honda generator, I have a good size solar panel and a wind genny, and my led anchor light would not run down the battery for months even without any alt any charging, but for some reason I do not understand even folks with generators try to save $ by getting cheap, dim, or unreliable anchor lights! With todays tech there is just no excuse at all. And I still maintain that jet skis should not be driven at night, in fact that is not legal for a very good reason...with a larger boat you do not drive it in such small places as jet skis commonly go at the speed they do, and kids are not as likely to drive larger boats either. And with the speed they have when running in the normal manner they were designed for going nearly all the time you need to be able to see far ahead, night just doesn't cut it. Or would you care if it was legal to fire a 30-06 rifle in your back yard in the city just because "not everyone" would do so in a dangerous manner? Hey, I'm sure I could rig a bullet trap that would make it safe...-Ken _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
