"Paul" wrote in message
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The best looking one I've ever seen--from a distance anyway--is on Sue and
Larry's restored Formosa Peterson, "Serengeti." Sue and Larry are sailing
authors who regularly contribute to sailnet.com, and there are many
pictures
of their boat attached to their articles. The reason I like their hard
dodger the best is because the dodger and bimini are one long, continuous
piece covers the entire cockpit and is large enough to put a whole
boatload
of solar panels on. It also has a hard windshield. Visit sailnet.com and
search for "hard dodger" and you'll see it.

I've done some pencil sketches of my own version of Sue and Larry's
design,
I think it's doable but quite the project. I guess if Larry can do it so
could I, but I notice that they never wrote an article about the dodger
and
they never show it close up. So, they may be unhappy with their
workmanship.


They did, indeed, write up about it. Estimated that they had over 1000
hours of labor in it, and over 5k of money. I archived the article, I
think - they talked about it in one of their solar articles...

Meanwhile, I'm about to buy one with a 10x12 HT, but with all removable
panels that also have zipouts for short-term removal. You can get a better
look at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery and click on hightime.

One of our anticipated upgrades is to cover it in solar panels - but another
of my correspondents, from the SSCA lists, has had excellent luck with just
one solar and one wind generator, usually keeping his 800AH of batteries
fully charged, so I'm thinking about that, as expensive as solar is for the
amount of amps it produces.

L8R

Skip


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"And then again, when you sit at the helm of your little ship on a clear
night, and gaze at the countless stars overhead, and realize that you are
quite alone on a great, wide sea, it is apt to occur to you that in the
general scheme of things you are merely an insignificant speck on the
surface of the ocean; and are not nearly so important or as self-sufficient
as you thought you were. Which is an exceedingly wholesome thought, and one
that may effect a permanent change in your deportment that will be greatly
appreciated by your friends."- James S. Pitkin