{"id":46142,"date":"2026-09-15T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=46142"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:40:16","slug":"survey-of-the-week-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/09\/survey-of-the-week-215\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week&#8217;s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/RZKFMNJ\">Aside from the Coast Guard required fire extinguisher on board, have you added any other fire mitigation of suppresion gear and equipment?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out last week&#8217;s survey on marine alternators. Pf those who replied, 53% have a high-output alterenator on their engines and of those 73% instaled it themselves. Asked to\u00a0 comment on the output in amps that is about right for a mid-side cruisoing boat, most sail etween 120 and 200 amps, depending on the sice of the battery bank. Of all resppondents, 78% also have a smart regulator in their charging system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week&#8217;s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks. &nbsp; Aside from the Coast Guard required fire extinguisher on board, have you added any other fire mitigation of suppresion gear and equipment? &nbsp; Many thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out last week&#8217;s survey on marine alternators. Pf those who replied, 53% have a high-output alterenator on their engines and of those 73% instaled it themselves. Asked to\u00a0 comment on the output in amps that is about right for a mid-side cruisoing boat, most sail etween 120 and 200 amps, depending on the sice of the battery bank. Of all resppondents, 78% also have a smart regulator in their charging system. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46142"}],"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=46142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46144,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46142\/revisions\/46144"}],"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=46142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}