Re: What is a genny required for?
Well, let me see if I can sum it up for you. I have a 44' SeaRay with the sweet smell of Diesel, but before that many a gas. Here are some key points. Unless someone installed invertors, you don't have them. The question is what do you do with your boat? Do you want to leave Friday night and come back Sunday night staying on the hook? You also have to remember your refrigerator and stuff are running off of house batteries too before you plug in the vacuum cleaner and microwave. There are a lot of options out there, and not a big fan of inverters, even though I have them because I put them in, it just sucks when your batteries are dead. Yes, try and get a boat with the GenSet built in. It's just cleaner and easier. If you don't we have seen many people with the little honda generators on the back of the ski platform. They work great, but when it comes to bed time, gas my ***! You need CO2 detectors regardless. There is always someone close buy running there GenSet. Every year we have fatalities because people go to sleep with their gas gens on. It really bothered me when the dog died too. You want to sleep with it? Buy a diesel. Yes, there are new ones that have greatly reduced CO, but gas also explodes, now don't everyone give me a lecture on how safe gas is. Something about Maryland. Gas boats like to explode and burn to the water line.
On all my boats, I have converted the house batteries to 6 volt golf cart batteries, 2 tied together to give me a monster 12 V house battery. I think someone mentioned it. You have to have the room, but then again, we anchor out from Friday to Monday. Lots of beer to keep cool.
Bottom line, buy the boat with how your going to use if if possible if you don't have the expertise to upgrade it. Where we boat, the water is 90+ in the summer, so a/c is not a luxury, its basic need. A genset is just a great thing to have, you will love it.
Good luck!
Well, let me see if I can sum it up for you. I have a 44' SeaRay with the sweet smell of Diesel, but before that many a gas. Here are some key points. Unless someone installed invertors, you don't have them. The question is what do you do with your boat? Do you want to leave Friday night and come back Sunday night staying on the hook? You also have to remember your refrigerator and stuff are running off of house batteries too before you plug in the vacuum cleaner and microwave. There are a lot of options out there, and not a big fan of inverters, even though I have them because I put them in, it just sucks when your batteries are dead. Yes, try and get a boat with the GenSet built in. It's just cleaner and easier. If you don't we have seen many people with the little honda generators on the back of the ski platform. They work great, but when it comes to bed time, gas my ***! You need CO2 detectors regardless. There is always someone close buy running there GenSet. Every year we have fatalities because people go to sleep with their gas gens on. It really bothered me when the dog died too. You want to sleep with it? Buy a diesel. Yes, there are new ones that have greatly reduced CO, but gas also explodes, now don't everyone give me a lecture on how safe gas is. Something about Maryland. Gas boats like to explode and burn to the water line.
On all my boats, I have converted the house batteries to 6 volt golf cart batteries, 2 tied together to give me a monster 12 V house battery. I think someone mentioned it. You have to have the room, but then again, we anchor out from Friday to Monday. Lots of beer to keep cool.
Bottom line, buy the boat with how your going to use if if possible if you don't have the expertise to upgrade it. Where we boat, the water is 90+ in the summer, so a/c is not a luxury, its basic need. A genset is just a great thing to have, you will love it.
Good luck!
