{"id":1168,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:13:57","slug":"water-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/water-generators\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Generators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p> I am interested in your experience with paddle wheel versus propeller-driven generators. Also in the deployment of forward-facing propellers similar to the Aquair submersible. How have they been mounted and what kick-up mechanisms have worked? Thanks for your input. I continue to enjoy the Encyclopedia.&#8211;Clint Clemens <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Clint: Our experience with water generators is covered in detail in Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia. In general, forward-facing works fine to absorb energy&#8211;but it takes a lot of blade area which is, of course, drag.<\/p>\n<p>While we used these units on a number of boats years ago, the drag (and noise) penalties were too high for us. I prefer to use engine now, which these days we find is on at least an hour a day or so on every passage.<\/p>\n<p>With a cat like you are building I would forget about the water generator, and go with solar panels.&#8211;Steve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am interested in your experience with paddle wheel versus propeller-driven generators. Also in the deployment of forward-facing propellers similar <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/water-generators\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-yacht-systems-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36442,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/36442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}