Understanding shore power

After draining her charter boat batteries, Ali Wood realises it’s time to get to grips with batteries

Roger Hughes explains how he installed a powerful new source of silent AC power into his yacht

For years, wind, solar and hydrogeneration have been the key to charging the house batteries without resorting to an internal combustion engine. Decisions about what to fit will depend on a combinatio

For those of us who aren’t experts in off-gridding, the motorhome hook-up is a power lifeline, an umbilical cord to civilisation. Plug in to the campsite’s electricity supply and you have a pitch powe

Rob Adams treats his 1938 classic motor launch to a spanking new solar array

OUR FIRST TRIP away in Penny back in 2023 was fun, but something of an adventure. We took her away to see what worked and what didn’t. It didn’t take long. Pretty much nothing worked. But we were at a