[C38] Group 31 battery size and other offshore racing memories

Fri Jul 15 00:34:06 EDT 2011

Thanks everyone. I plan to go with a pair of optima blue top 31's. Looks like I can get them for $239 each, no delivery fee, no tax from 1st OptimaBattery.  I need to get going on it as we'll be heading to Catalina fairly soon.  I'll let you know how it works out.

For Steve, sorry you had to drop out of Transpac, but your story brought back 25 year old memories of ladling water out of the water tank for the last four days of a Newport Bermuda race after we burned up the starter and conserved the remaining battery we had for Loran fixes in the vicinity of Bermuda.   We were very afraid we would miss the island all together having little confidence in our ability to DR in the Gulf Stream.  That scar may also have something to do with my desire to have a spare starter....

Many thanks to you and Larry for letting some former offshore racers live vicariously through you.  I can't help but check the yellowbrickroad app every evening now.  Watching the sleds reel in the C38's was inevitable, but surprisingly painful to watch.  

All LEDs inside and out is my long term plan as part of the engine and house rewire.  Suspect I'll go to big 6V batteries, solar panels, and maybe even a little wind generator at that point.  This new technology is just amazing.  

Thanks, Dan
Narnia#315

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On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:35 PM, "Steve Smolinske" <SSmolinske at rainierrubber.com> wrote:

> Peregrine has two group 24 6 volt batteries in the battery compartment for the house bank   One 12 volt in the cockpit locker for the engine with a battery switch. And a 33 amp emergency battery forward of the fuel tank which is for emergency lights and instruments it feeds a separate panel.    All three banks are hooked up to the charger and a gizmo  the name escapes me that regulates the charge to all banks evenly. Also replaced all lighting with LEDs and at night with full instruments and the mast head light only draw 2.5 amps.  
> Steve Smolinske
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> On Jul 14, 2011, at 5:05 PM, "Craig Steinkraus" <Navion at Charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> Daniel,   I have 3 group 31 batts installed under the long section of the dinette. 1 group 31 nd the starting battery under the seat in the normal position. This arrangment has worked well for me. I also have 180 watts of solar and a Air-Breeze wind generator. Even up here on Lake Superior, I have been "out" for 4 weeks and still make ice every day with frozen meat in the freezer.
>>  
>> Craig
>> "Wings" C-38 # 280
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Daniel Seigenthaler
>> To: Catalina 38 Listserve
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 9:49 PM
>> Subject: [C38] Group 31 battery size
>> 
>> 
>> Has anyone successfully installed group 31 batteries in the battery compartment under the dinette?  Length and width should fit easily, however height seems to be very close.  Since I'm going to transition to AGMs, I'm thinking I shouldn't really need a storage box, just straps. Currently have a pair of group 27 deep cycle there that have only about an inch of clearance. Would like to get the flooded lead acid batteries out of the cabin.  Second "bank" is a single starting battery in the port lazerette.   Figure I'll do the full rewire in a couple years.  Would welcome any thoughts.  Thanks, Dan
>> 
>> NARNIA #315
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>> On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:03 PM, S Orton <ssorton at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm sorry about the foul-up, but you are a new member paying through the web, therefore I as treasurer have no records (address, spouse,etc) of you and the name "Bonita Chane" completely threw me.  Please email me your address and boat info.
>>> Steve O, Treasurer
>>>  
>>> From: bbchaney2 at msn.com
>>> To: listserve at catalina38.org
>>> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:30:27 -0700
>>> Subject: Re: [C38] Membership as of 7/01/11
>>> 
>>> You still don’t have Bob & Bonnie Chaney on the list.( Robert & Bonita )
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: S Orton
>>> To: Cat 38
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 4:44 PM
>>> Subject: [C38] Membership as of 7/01/11
>>> 
>>> Below is the revised list of all paid members up to July 1.  I hope I haven't skipped anybody.
>>> Cheers, Steve O, Treasurer
>>>  
>>> Last name	First name
>>> Adams	Julian
>>> Barr	Larry
>>> Bixby	Jonathan
>>> Buckner	Donald
>>> Busteed	Jim
>>> Brokaw	Bob
>>> Brown	Marci
>>> DeLong	Leslie
>>> Epstein	David
>>> Finn	Charles B
>>> Garber	Larry
>>> Gay	Philip
>>> Gilmore	Dick
>>> Grimes	Kerry
>>> Hansen	Rory
>>> Harpole	Patrick
>>> Harrison	Richard
>>> Haynes	Bill
>>> Ho	Alex
>>> Howell	Howard L
>>> Hunter	Cliff
>>> Kilroy	Richard
>>> Kirby	Bob
>>> Knowles	William
>>> Kopylow	George
>>> Kwee	Yvo
>>> Launie	Joseph
>>> Lewis	Mark
>>> Malmberg	Larry
>>> McCarthy	Dave
>>> Miller	Roberet
>>> Miller	Daniel
>>> Miller	Scott
>>> Nagle	Christopher
>>> Norcross	Michael
>>> Patino	Pierre
>>> Orton	Steve
>>> Ribble	Steven
>>> Ryan	David
>>> Schrenkeisen	Stephan
>>> Seigenthaler	Daniel
>>> Severino	Donald
>>> Smolinske	Stephen
>>> Sorensen	Jay
>>> Soto	Max
>>> Stammerjohn	Robert
>>> Stanton	Michael
>>> Steinkraus	Craig
>>> Stewart	Marc S
>>> Stoltz	David
>>> Strong	Don
>>> Sundquist	Michael
>>> Sutto	Ken
>>> Swensson	Richard
>>> Wordell	David
>>> Yost	Thomas
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