Lepke
Guru
- Joined
- Jun 19, 2016
- Messages
- 3,040
- Location
- US
- Vessel Name
- Charlie Harper
- Vessel Make
- Wheeler Shipyard 83'
I'm 70 and I live aboard and have a private dock where I winter. Except stopping at fuel docks, I anchor the rest of the time. I carry a boat for going ashore for supplies I can't get at a fuel dock. If I'm going to be in an area for awhile I rent a 16' space for my shore boat, but the big boat hasn't touched a marina in 7 years. In the tropics, you'll need to go somewhere to get the bottom cleaned or dive and do it yourself. If there's a river mouth you can anchor in, fresh water kills the salt water marine growth. But doesn't remove it.
For me, the key is a good inverter system. Mine will run anything on board. I only run a generator when making water (50 gallons/hr). My high pressure pump is belt driven on one of the generators. That generator runs less than 1 hour a day and not every day. Unless I have people on board or supply water or power to others.
I've never had a security problem I couldn't handle. I prefer very remote places with few people that also has dangerous wildlife. But I'm a combat vet and former hunter and apparently not afraid of my own shadow.
For me, the key is a good inverter system. Mine will run anything on board. I only run a generator when making water (50 gallons/hr). My high pressure pump is belt driven on one of the generators. That generator runs less than 1 hour a day and not every day. Unless I have people on board or supply water or power to others.
I've never had a security problem I couldn't handle. I prefer very remote places with few people that also has dangerous wildlife. But I'm a combat vet and former hunter and apparently not afraid of my own shadow.