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Life is Like Sailing - Winter Cruising 2024 - Ep 03
March 22, 2024 · 27 min · 22K views · Montague Harbour, Galiano Island
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Montague Marine Park on Galiano Island serves as an early-season destination for a solo sailor in mid-March.2:30 The park offers approximately 30 to 35 mooring buoys and a dock restricted to vessels under 36 feet.2:52 Shore access includes hiking trails on Greys Peninsula and provincial campsites equipped with food-storage lockers to deter raccoons.8:34 The boat, a heavy-displacement vessel with a 1200-amp-hour house bank consisting of four 8D batteries, relies on a 300-watt solar array mounted on a repurposed dinghy davit system.15:13 To improve off-grid charging, two additional 100-watt panels are mounted on the dodger using Gemini hardware and custom starboard brackets.9:35 These dodger panels utilize independent controllers to prevent shading from the mizzenmast from impacting total output.9:40 During the return passage to Ladysmith, light northwest winds limit sailing speeds to two knots, necessitating a transition to motoring.22:56 The Victron monitoring system confirms the existing 300-watt array successfully reached float mode, harvesting over one kilowatt of power during the sunny spring day.16:34
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