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For a while, April Fool was displayed in Treasure Village place on Islamorada, right where the giant lobster used to be before they converted that shopping place to a Montessori school. It was kind of a museum exhibit.

Then buy a small sailboat and train yourself. Seriously.

Why do you worry about it? You have a protected climate controlled pilot house with armchairs and windshield wipers. People in open cockpit sailboats go through the same weather unprotected. Having to remove sails when the squal wind speed happens to be surprising 50 knots instead of 25 that you...

In 2009 I kept my boat at Keys Fisheries Marina for $10 per foot per month, as far as I recall. I heard that since then they stopped allowing liveaboards.

7:00 am to 3:00 pm amounts to 8 hours.

Seems quite restricted to me.

Right. Besides, the question was, how many electrons I can squeeze out of the box. Not what will happen to the box afterwards.

Modern batteries, such as Odyssey, can be discharged to 20% of rated capacity without shortening their life span. State of the art batteries can be discharged even deeper.

Why not 80%?

So you have 6 1.4 kW*h batteries, 8.4 kW*h total, no matter how you wire them.

For me it was at least 30% gain. Likely, more than 30.

Our divorce cost us $400 in Miami (simple dissolution). I was moving out of state for more interesting work, she wanted to stay, so she kept the house and I got the boat. Quite simple and almost completely painless. We even had a vacation together a year after the divorce. The children were...

Good. Almost like an electrocar.

Nor do you have a performance advantage.

I have no problem with a naturally aspirated Lexus GS performance.