It’s always something

Posted 3 CommentsPosted in Mexico

We were all set to go. But you know the saying, “cruising is doing boat work in exotic places?” La Cruz is far from exotic when you’ve been here as long as we have. Solar was up and running, we provisioned, our slip neighbor Travis on S/V Brighter Days made us some ribs for the […]

New Solar Panels

Posted 1 CommentPosted in Life aboard, Mexico

Power management on a cruising sailboat is a pretty important and sometimes frustrating topic. Since purchasing Juniper we’ve done what we can to reduce our energy usage (e.g. replaced all cabin lighting with LED, etc), but our primary issue has been generating enough power to replenish our batteries each night. We have a wind generator […]