"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
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You should have ample reserve for your 2 hour
cruises...especially with the aux charging the battery!


What about our 3 day weekends on anchor and wanting to run the fridge,
lights, stereo, LCD TV for a couple of nights? Do you think two well
charged GRP 24's will handle that?

Sure Bob... no problem. What do you think the charter boats do in the
tropics???
Of course you'll have to learn to only waddle to the fridge once a night and
take out what you need instead of testing the hinges like you do on your
home unit. You run your aux to charge the bank in case your day's run of 5
hours charge time was insufficient to overcome the draw of the electronics
required to keep you entertained. Let's see now... you have a kid and it's
summer, the sun sets at around 2100hrs... so lights out at 2200hrs because
you're not accustomed to late night parties. A lab top can run the DVD....
and viola.."Bob's Your Uncle" ... 2 group 24s worked fine.

But I would go with the forklift battery strapped to the swim platform...
it'll actually give the area a use and you can run the deck floods and turn
on every light for the whole night. You could balance the forklift battery
to port with a ginormous genset to stbd of the swim platform.

BTW - you only have one bank because your boat is a POS designed for day
sails by newbies.

CM