Arild and I were batting this one around offlist yesterday. How the boat is
used has to be part of the equation. When travelling south on the ICW, I start
and run the engine daily. Usually, it isn't sunny enough in the fall to
recharge the starting battery, so, after several days of this, I'd likely have
a deficit in power, demonstrated by the battery's inability to turn the engine
over.
One solution would be to use jumper cables when - not if - this occured, but
that doesn't solve the recharging problem. So, for my situation, isolation
isn't a workable option.
Here's a tip some may not know - if your diesel has decompression levers, if
the battery is low and barely able to turn the engine over, knock them down to
turn the engine over at speed with the batteries' remaining power, then flip
them back one cylinder at a time. The engine will run on one cylinder, then its
power can turn over and start the second one. Thanks to a Sea Tow captain in
Oriental for that one.
Wally
s/v Gypsy Wind
lying Annapolis, MD
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