Larry,

I know the answer is somewhere in a search of this newsgroup but I'm feeling
lazy today. I've enjoyed your posts on batteries and would appreciate a
direct recommendation.

I'm probably going to be sailing off a mooring for much of the summer so
often won't even run the engine at all on day sails. I won't have any place
to plug the fat yellow cord into so a solar panel to keep my two AGM
batteries (Yeah, I know you don't like them but they work well for me.)
topped up is probably in order.

What would you buy for the simplest set up here in Maine? It will have to
just sit on a cockpit seat and be stowed while sailing. I'll want to wire it
to a dedicated plug so I can turn off the master switch when I leave the
boat.

Electrical loads are about as minimal as they get on a 32 foot boat, lights,
GPS, one radio, depthsounder, knotlog, 15 HP diesel. Bilge pumps never run.
I always run my batteries on "Both" (I know, but that's another discussion.
It works well for me.)

Come to think of it, I don't want any permanent connection between the
battery banks to complicate things when I am using my dual charger on shore
power with the master switch off so I probably need two separate solar
panels.

(Anyone else feel free with a recommendation as well.)

--
Roger Long