On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:38:32 -0700, "Rod McInnis"
wrote:

Sounds like a good idea to me, as long as you can count on having
reasonable state of charge in both batteries. I can imagine sailing home
from a weekend and not being able to use the port winch because that battery
is dead!

Right, that's a downside I can see...or even worse one battery bank
crumps somehow on a long trip. The winch is sized large enough that we
can crank by hand (or change course and go around the world ;-))