Trojan Boat Forum

Over the 4th weekend, after many failed attempts to fix my generator, it finally happened. We stayed out all night with the Geni purring along all night.

It ran great.... Only took New wires and electronic ignition install and it runs like new except for burning a quart and a half every 12 hours of running.

It was so nice to wake up on the water.

That's great! There's nothing better than waking up in the morning and sitting on the back deck with a coffee while anchored in a bay. My wife and I do this almost every weekend thru the summer.

I know my boat is alot smaller than yours and so are the energy requirements however I'll tell you how we get thru a 3 day weekend without running the generator constantly. I added up all of the DC amp requirements for a two day period then installed a house bank that would accomedate this while using no more than 40% of it's capacity. My fridge runs on DC as well as the lighting, stereo etc. Inverter is used for the television wlile at anchor. When we wake up in the morning, I start the generator which allows me to make coffee, re-charge the battery banks, make hot water, etc. I usually shut it off 2-3 hours later and things are nice and quiet again for the rest of the day. I'll also start it again occasionally to run the microwave.

Again I know your power requirements are greater than mine but if you can install a battery bank that can cover it, you can save time on your generator.

Hope this helps,

i still haven't gotten to stay out all night yet. my wife is afraid of pirates.

The weather up here has been for sheet, man! Rain, hail, lightning, etc, etc, etc. For the past week and a half (natch, this is when I'm taking vacation on the boat). But, that being off my chest.....I absolutely agree that nothing beats getting off the dock/slip/ramp, etc and overnightiing (or 2 or more) on the boat. Ours is also limited in space, but the 2 of us really have plenty of room. This year we put the kayaks on the hardtop roof and hit the water when it's really "iffy" out. Tomorrow the weather is supposed to break so we plan a 3-4 day weekend, cruising the lake, anchoring out in our favorite bays, etc, to end vacation.

It's tough trying to have a house bank for that big mammoo out in GA, especially when I'm sure they're trying to run the AC. Nice thing about Adirondack AC is that it's just a matter of opening the hatch...of course, can you say. "do you want Black Flies with that.....???"

You can't get that WaveVenture painted hanging out on the hook...don'tcha know

We spend 6 nights on the boat last week at 3 diffrent marinas had a great time

I gotta ask you guys, I would love to anchor out, but I find, its just to damn rough here where I do my boating, do you guys deal with constant , movement , I mean enough to knock stuff off shelves or is it calm where you guys are, here you would have to find a cove, or something like that to enjoy sleeping or even thiinking about staying out all night. we took the boat out for the 4th to see the fireworks on the Hudson , and it was the worst ,, rough water, 1000 idiots drinking and boating made it even worse, couple that with no visability, it made for a horrible evening. I dont think I will be going out to do that again. Just wondering how people deal with it

Anchor in protected water if possible - otherwise its a rodeo

We anchor out nearly every weekend from June to Mid Oct. Finding a quiet piece of back water off the man channel of the Mississippi is easy to do. Most of the time we "raft up" with 3-4 other boats. Share some food, drinks, and stories, the best of times.

If you run your genny all night, I'd recommend a Carbon Monoxide detector. The smalles of exhaust leak, or a breeze blowing the exhaust back at you could be deadly. We have two detectors on board, not so much for the genny, but to make sure we're not pulling normal engine exhaust back into the solon and lower quarters while cruising slow.

LSP wrote:You can't get that WaveVenture painted hanging out on the hook...don'tcha know

I just finished painting it yesterday, gotta wet sand it now and sticker it and it will be ready for the water.

guglielmo6160 wrote:I gotta ask you guys, I would love to anchor out, but I find, its just to damn rough here where I do my boating, do you guys deal with constant , movement , I mean enough to knock stuff off shelves or is it calm where you guys are, here you would have to find a cove, or something like that to enjoy sleeping or even thiinking about staying out all night. we took the boat out for the 4th to see the fireworks on the Hudson , and it was the worst ,, rough water, 1000 idiots drinking and boating made it even worse, couple that with no visability, it made for a horrible evening. I dont think I will be going out to do that again. Just wondering how people deal with it

We pull way back in a cove. We don't get near the idiots. We watched them fly across the big water with nothing but Nav lights and waiting for them to hit each other. Luckily there was a full moon out so no one go killed. There was one collision and a fire on land from the fireworks Ambers

LandVF36 wrote:We anchor out nearly every weekend from June to Mid Oct. Finding a quiet piece of back water off the man channel of the Mississippi is easy to do. Most of the time we "raft up" with 3-4 other boats. Share some food, drinks, and stories, the best of times.

If you run your genny all night, I'd recommend a Carbon Monoxide detector. The smalles of exhaust leak, or a breeze blowing the exhaust back at you could be deadly. We have two detectors on board, not so much for the genny, but to make sure we're not pulling normal engine exhaust back into the solon and lower quarters while cruising slow.

Got em'. One in the forward cabin and one in the Aft.

while flying a trip over the 4th (god forbid a flight attendant with 15 years seniority should have the weekend of the 4th of july off) i got a text message from some friends of mine at our marina who own a 40 foot mainship trawler. at around 1am on saturday, it seems some 'kids' from a marina down river from us did a little dock buzzing without running lights. they hugged the bows of the channel facing vessels and were halfway running between displacement/plane mode kicking up one hell of a wake. much damage insued--- including broken glassware (bad idea on a boat anyway), a few flat screens falling off tables etc (not secure?)and one guy even experienced a sprin line cleat being torn off. down at my end, a couple that own a 41 foot sliverton flush deck had their two sons tossed from the forward bunks and their swim platform crushed as the rogue wake pushed it into the dock...... no damage to EVENT HORIZON though as she has her stern facing the channel on the opposite side of the dock. gee, i wonder if alcohol was involved. anyway, the marine police have yet to ID who was the cause of this trouble.

Tuck wrote:i still haven't gotten to stay out all night yet. my wife is afraid of pirates.

Pittsburg or Blackbeard? Not too many Blackbeards in Chattanooga ...

avast!! the BLACK PEARL she be in chattanooga and she be out just about every weekend patrolling our waters
dead me tell no tells