Reply To: Mounting Solar Panels

Thanks Steve/Mel,

The arrangement I bought with the boat is panels on the aft cabin but they have both given up the ghost. Internal connections have cracked and corroded so I am looking at hanging them off the stern instead.

As it is the tender on the davits is a weight issue. I haven't figured out how much of an issue as I only bought the boat in November and haven't been out in it much yet. So far I have towed it rather than hoist it as I've only been out for short sails.

I'm also considering putting on a hardtop cockpit cover – hard bimini rather than total enclosure and putting a couple of panels on there too. Overall I reckon I'm going to need as much of 400w of panels to run a fridge in the summer in the Algarve so finding mounting space is an issue….