Practical Boat Owner

Understanding shore power

More than once while our Maxi 84 Project Boat was kept in a marina last year, I arrived at the berth to find our battery voltage had dropped to 12.4V, despite having connected it to shore power. Each time it would appear to have tripped – though never while I was on board.

When Adam McMenemy of ACM Marine next visited , I asked him to take a look. We flicked the breaker back up on the RCD box and reconnected the shore power. The charge jumped to

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