Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family.<\/p>\n
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Thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out last week’s survey on lithium batteries on our boats. Of those who responded, 26% have lithium batteries. Those with lithium batteries rated their batters at 4.7 out of 5, a strong endorsement. Of those who do not have lithium batteries, 37% say they are seriously considering upgrading to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. If you were advising a friend who is interested in owning a cruising boat, what would you suggest is the annual cost of owning and maintaining such a boat relative to the actual cost of the boat? (Don’t include personal costs, such as provisioning, entertaining, touring, etc.) Thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out last week’s survey on lithium batteries on our boats. Of those who responded, 26% have lithium batteries. Those with lithium batteries rated their batters at 4.7 out of 5, a strong endorsement. Of those who do not have lithium batteries, 37% say they are seriously considering upgrading to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40186,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40184\/revisions\/40186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}