Centennial - now with shore power
Centennial spent all of its prior life on a mooring, which made shore power hook-ups semi-irrelevant. Slips (with power included) are remarkably affordable and convenient at Meinke’s on Lake Erie, so I added shore power. Pretty cheaply, I must add.
The inlet you see above was less than $60 from eBay, and the inside bits were all off-the-shelf home equipment that I got cheap at Stadium Hardware.
The main trick I pulled was to use a 20 amp GFCI outlet on the inside (the cord and the plug are rated for 30 amps, so I was conservative). Them are the outlets you see in people’s bathrooms, the ones with a circuit breaker built-in, which makes sense on a boat. I got the one with an LED light that indicates if the breaker has tripped, which should be nice.
We also got the shrouds (the wires that support the masts) all correctly tensioned and ’safetied’ (meaning: I put clips on them so they don’t unwind themselves) as well.
The cord will arrive this week.