Hello Everyone,
My partner and I became owners of a 2004 V288 last October. Since we're in the Florida panhandle we had a couple of good weekends last year before we had to put her up for winter. This is our first experience with a cruiser and we're new at being on salt water.
Of course, we have alot ot learn and alot of questions. I've found a ton of answers on this forum so...thanks to you all. There are a few I haven't found the answers to so here we go:
--When you're traveling, does the refrigerator run on the battery?
--Has anyone had a problem with a sirius antenna? Our sirius radio was working fine last time we were down but this time its giving us an "invalid channel" display. We called sirius and they said it was the antenna or the radio itself.
--Does the generator run off the same fuel tank as the engines? We started our generator this time and it ran for a few seconds then cut back off. It would start again but acted like it was not getting fuel and cut off.
--Is it a good idea to have an anchor in addition to the one on the windlass? We anchored out this weekend and the anchor held fine but we went around in circles because of the wind.
--We've got twin Volvo's (270 hp). Should we run the engines when we're flushing them? We're gotten mixed answers at our marina on this one.
Thanks so much in advance!
