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Default DEAD &%#*& Batteries?

| Does your boat have lights? Instruments? Windlass? Pumps?
| Refrigeration? An engine?


Ellen MacArthur wrote:
No, no, no, no, no, no. It has a compass if you call that an instrument.


Sure.
A good compass is a great instrument.

Since your boat does have an enclosing deck & cabin you
should consider getting an electric automatic bilge pump.
It's far better to have one & not need it, than to need it
and not have it.


| ..... If you don't
| need it, that's fine. But are you sure of your ground in
| criticising others for having it?

I guess it's nice on BIG sailboats but I still think it's not necessary


Of course it's not *necessary*.


.... and it
seems to take away from time spent sailing.


That depends very much on the person. Some get distracted
and are more gadgeteers than sailors. Others keep it in
perspective and use available technology to make their
sailing & cruising better.


.... Are sailboats supposed to hold
all of western civilization? I've got a house for all that stuff.


Your house isn't the culmination of a long tradition
starting with primordial dugouts, triremes, Viking
longships, galleons, clipper ships, and racing cutters.

"Houses are merely vessels of a different kind, so firmly
aground that they cannot ever get unstuck and so poorly
constructed that they couldn't remain afloat if they did."
-Arthur Ransome

DSK