PassageMaker Article: "The Sound of Silence"

By Mark Tilden, Selene 60 "Koinonia"

I installed six 400-watt panels on Koinonia--two on the pilothouse roof and four on the hardtop, with a walkway between them to access other equipment.

I admit it, I'm a bit behind. Several Selene owners long ago recognized the many benefits of a solar array for battery charging--among them, less time with a noisy generator running, and also more complete battery charging. I finally got around to installing my own system this past summer,

I had a list of goals for the project, chief among them to get as much solar capacity as I could within the confines of the hardtop and pilothouse roof. I wanted to maintain convenient access to the other equipment that’s up there, and I wanted to avoid drilling a bunch of new holes in the fiberglass hardtop and pilothouse roof. At the same time, I wanted to maintain the beautiful lines of our Selene 60, Koinonia.

I completed the project late in the summer of 2021, so we only had limited opportunity to test the system on a brief late summer cruise, but the results were encouraging

See the article in PassageMaker here for the complete story: https://www.passagemaker.com/lifestyle/the-sound-of-silence-2022