Don't want to return to any marina's this year.

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I just installed a lithium battery system on our boat and it runs everything including the AC it’s awesome. Still working out some kinks but it’s awesome to have AC without running that stupid generator all day. We also have 9 solar panels (2.8kw) that help and a solark 48v inverter.
 
doc said:
We're looking at putting solar on our houseboat slipped at Wahweap this coming off season. Anyone know good contacts in the Page area who have done this? What is anyone's guess on cost w/ installation? It'd be nice to be able to run as much as possible off the solar. Our boat is a late 90s 68'.
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Sounds like a great question that deserves its own thread. :)
 
And just like that we may not be launching this year. Just received an email from Laketime stating that the NSP may not be able to maintain a launch ramp in a few days. :(
 
Check out the new thread titled "Wahweap Launch Status". Things have changed a lot since Lake Time wrote that email.
 
please remember lake Powell is not your personal garbage dump, don't throw any thing in to our lake that didn,t come out of it, fish part,s ,fish gut,s fine your compost not fine , you brought it , take it home , pack it in pack it out ,in small boat's you see it all, mostly what people think is compost is just garbage.
 
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You could do what our neighbors in Last Chance this summer did with their trash... Take your 50 gal hefty bag up on the beach (but not too far), douse it with lighter fluid and burn it all! The breeze blew the plasticky smoke right in their front door for hours 😁
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This is an example of WHAT NOT TO DO. Trash Trackers find so many burned trash bags and the contents never really burn away. We have to scoop up the congealed plastic/glass/mess and haul it out. Please don't be lazy and pack out your trash the right way.

Tiff
 
Strong 40-55 gallon 3m trash bags is a must to avoid rip and tears with trash bags, we store on beach covered up then put in larger stronger bags to transport, the electric 5 gallon water dispensers are smart way to prevent empty partially drank water bottles all around. Rotomould coolers are worth their cost for ice retention, the more that runs on solar the better, newer technology on generators = less fuel consumption, xtra freezers are always better, shade cloth with metal clips is very handy for blocking suns heat and of course the right attitude when at the like is a must. Those rotomould coolers are expensive but so is motoring back for ice that alone will pay for the coolers. And yes the laketime houseboats are a nice setup our friends have ownership in a very nice boat with all these things very comfortable.
 
Laketime offers an additional freezer for the top of the boat. complete with ice. When we first arrived at the yard, we iced our coolers, and had Laketime refill the freezers, which gave us ice for the entire trip.
 
Bill Sampson said:
Laketime offers an additional freezer for the top of the boat. complete with ice. When we first arrived at the yard, we iced our coolers, and had Laketime refill the freezers, which gave us ice for the entire trip.
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I was just thinking it SUCKS for the owners of Lake time boats with the closing of Whaweep main.
 
Their website shows 35 boats, with between 8 and 21 shares per boat. Even if 1/3 or 1/2 of these shares have already done their trip for this season, that's still a bunch of people who lost their vacations.

Let's hope that the State Line Auxiliary Ramp comes back into service soon, and can handle the big houseboats.
 
Brent said:
Hey all! We are headed up to Powell this year on 8/1 for our annual houseboat trip. We will be with our Laketime House boat Turquoise Bay once again. We will be staying some where in Padre Bay, Cookie Jar or Face or West Canyon or if all to crowded then we may try Last Chance for the first time. If your vaccinated and see our houseboat come on by and say hello.

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My issues for this trip are as follows:

No CRC and no DR so I think a lot of people will be anchoring in and around Padre this year. Can't imagine motoring all the way to Wahweap for ice, gas and trash drop off and with DR closed our only marina left is Antelope. I can only imagine how much of a zoo Antelope will be this year. And the Maytag straights are going to be terrible probably as soon as 9 am or sooner.

So I'm trying to come up with ideas on how we can make minimal trips back to a marina this year.

Ideas so far are:
Having one trach can for aluminum cans that we can crush on back deck near can crusher to eliminate aluminum can waste in other trash bags.
Storing our full trash bags under the front bow. We normally would make a trash run every other day or so to DR and or Wahweap and drop off our trash so we don't get that dreaded days old trash smell.
Freezing Gatorade and other large water containers nightly in our bow freezer so we can put them back in the ice chests during the day.
Only using Arctic / Yeti coolers to keep the ice and drinks colder longer.
Only using our cubed ice in our freezer on our bow for drinks only, not for ice chest.
Taking as much of the cardboard as we can off the packaging while still dry docked at Laketime so we have less trash on board.

Luckily our Laketime houseboat has a 200 gallon toy tank in the back and we can also use our generator gas tank of about 200 gallons to also fuel up our wave runners and ski boat. So trips to marina for gas should not be an issue, they normally are not. We normally only use about 80 gallons out of our generator tank to run our generator for the whole week. And our engine tank is also about 200 gallons and we have learned to putt up lake at minimal rpms and that really saves the fuel for the engines as well. If we have extra fuel in the engine tanks we can also pump out of there to fill up the toys.

Any other ideas or thoughts that may save us gas, ice, trash (trips to the marina) would be welcome.

Also praying for a large monsoon this year and the biggest, wettest, coldest winter ever this coming winter season.

See our crazy trips to Powell at Dooley's at Lake Powell
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We also have a boat with laketime. We usually bring an Ice chest freezer and use the wench to put it on top of the boat, then used frozen water bottles to keep things cold. You could also use any of the other freezers to keep refreezing water bottles, and rotated them out with melted ones. Eliminates the need for a lot of ice.
 
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