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March 14, 2013

Voltage Drop- How Do I Check?

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  Using your multimeter (DVOM or digital volt ohm meter) to scope out excessive voltage drop. Diagram from one of the author's books, Advanced Marine Electrics and Electronics Troubleshooting We received a question from a reader the other day asking about how they might go about checking for excessive voltage drop on their boat. Good question that needs a bit of explanation. First of all, what is voltage drop and why do you need to care? All of the electrical equipment on your boat is ...
March 14, 2013

Voltage Drop- How Do I Check?

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  Using your multimeter (DVOM or digital volt ohm meter) to scope out excessive voltage drop. Diagram from one of the author's books, Advanced Marine Electrics and Electronics Troubleshooting We received a question from a reader the other day asking about how they might go about checking for excessive voltage drop on their boat. Good question that needs a bit of explanation. First of all, what is voltage drop and why do you need to care? All of the electrical equipment on your boat is ...
March 11, 2013

Got Culture?

by Michael Robertson
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Courtesy of Michael Robertson
Del Viento- family

While we're living the cruising life, Windy and I are raising two little Americans who aren’t growing up in the United States—will they ever have pop-culture fluency?

March 8, 2013

On to the Caribbean

by David Gillespie
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Yours truly—happy to be sailing.

Fellow delivery crew member (and CW staffer) David Gillespie shares the experience of his first blue-water passage to the Caribbean after leaving George Town, Bahamas.

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