For a decidedly more comfortable life style and redundant operational security:

We recommend Fourwinds first, combined with a water generator, or conversion kit if you plan a lot of down wind sailing like across major oceans.  Wind generators provide 1 or 2 amps downwind, water generators 5 to 8+ amps.  For the money spent a wind generator will put more amps into your batteries than any other alternate source of energy.

A combination Fourwinds  II or Red Baron and solar panels is better if you need more AmpHours per day (AH/D), or if many calm days are expected.  Two  Fourwinds II or Red Barons and three 75 watt Solar Panels can provide 50+ amps of charging power.  We can regulate all these amps with our VR-5 voltage regulator.

Still lacking?  A High Output Alternator and Smart Regulator will reduce your engine running time to a minimum.

With Alternate energy available, lots of fresh water can be produced with Spectra or PUR’s 12-volt reverse osmosis water makers.  Five to sixteen gallons of pure water per day can be produced using only 16 AH/D.  The PUR PS 40E converts into a manually operated water maker making it ideal to serve as the ship’s water maker as well as one for the life raft.  Ask us for mounting recommendations.

If you would like pure water and lots of amps at the same time, a small diesel powered alternator/water maker will compliment #1, 2 or 3 above.

If you can’t decide call us.  We’ll help solve your alternate energy  problems as we have done for numerous NOW happy cruisers.

With all this power, for the comfort of the Admiral, we suggest an inverter, water maker and bread machine be part of the ship’s equipment.  Making her cruising life comfortable will make the Captains comfortable also.