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I have done my fair share of light wind passages. Its when the sea is lumpy and sails just thwack back and forward that it gets...

Not sure about that. The more detail the better when weather routing somebody.

I personally wouldn't oil them. Just attracts dirt. Boracol or Patio Magic or similar and leave them grey. If you really, really really...

We don't bother down loading weather onroute. We used to do it with the SSB but found we rarely used it so ripped it all out and gave it...

I just set up are Mini 2 for departure on Saturday morning. The functionality is very much like our older Inreach explorer. I have sent...

Thnx, though seems a little more expensive to run than inreach for what I'm looking for. Which isn't actually very much...

Starlink This is what our friends do. They re-registered theirs to Dominican Republic. The monthly cost is only $50US so it works...

Sensible folk aren't buying mobile global. The £80 service is just fine and can be moved to new continents as you travel, with priority...

Sorry if it sounded like I was bashing the Garmin, I wasn't and have an extensive collection of their tech! My point was that with an...

The inreach isn't an EPIRB but we carry 2 of those plus PLBs and personal AIS trackers on our life jackets. We considered starlink and...

We used the older Garmin Inreach Explorer previously for ocean crossings but at 10 years old, we decided to replace it with the mini 2...

You can just go and buy a lithium battery no problem. Its how you integrate the battery into your system thst creates the problems. Do...

I have fitted a Fogstar 460AH LifePo into exactly the same space as one of my two old 200Ah Banner AGMs, so twice the sensibly usable...

I think you're being a bit harsh on the lithium there. 80% is good practice but you could use the whole capacity and it would still...

If you use drop-ins, possibly. If you assemble cells in to a battery, it's far more compact.