Hair Dryer 12V

[Hayden Watson]

it might work

That hair dryer actually has a chance of working. It draws 30 amps and requires a special plug. You would definitely want to run the engine while using it because it would really be a drain on your batteries.

 

[Scott B]

My Fiancee says that when it is warm outside she has no problem letting the warm wind naturally drying her hair but since it is still cool during the early season she wishes that she had a little something to help out.

I am trying to make the experience to her liking by doing this and giving her some level of comfort. She is not that high maintenance but she will always care about how she looks. If it is important for her it should be important to me.

I was trying to avoid the expensive inverter etc. I just wanted a quick and practical solution for this.

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Hunt-Watt-1300-Dryer/dp/B002L74SHG/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

This one actually seems that it might work if it does, in fact, push the temp around 195 degrees F.

I do commend you for trying to make the sailing experience as positive for her as you can, both with this and the other thread you started. Having short hair, it's hard to relate having wet hair for any period of time when it's cold out. You might try the 12v hair dryer, it's only $ 45 and might just be adequate enough and a lot cheaper than the inverter / generator route.

 

[LuzSD]

Easy post to make fun of but this is a bit of a problem for us women. My best advise is to find the perfect solution for your hair type and rely on that. For me with long hair, I find that after sailing my hat hair (bangs)i s my problem..I found that a bandana works great and my hair looks much better later when removing it. Find hats that compliment you and just perfect your "boat hair style"! Then as posted by others, use your dryer and curling iron when your back in your slip. We also have a small generator for emergency and who says that some time my need for a hair fix won't be considered an emergency!! and for the record, not every woman stops caring after a year!!!

 

[sailingdog]

One other thing that may help is getting your GF a microfiber hair drying towel. These towels are pretty amazing...and can get most hair almost completely dry in a matter of minutes.

 

[timvg]

That's what a Honda 2000 watt generator is for. After the generator heats the hot water, it also dries my wife's hair. Cruising doesn't have to be camping.

 

[DR.SNOOK]

Sham Wow.......

Just have her put her hair in a very warm Sham-Wow. The cloths you see on tv. My girlfriend does that everytime she comes out of the shower. She also puts a little conditioner in and her hair looks great 10 min. later.....No split ends or anything......You can even gift rap some Sham-wow's and shampoo and conditioner as a present.....That way you look good, and she will feel great..........Capt of the sailing vessel DR.SNK :dance:

 

[Don S/V ILLusion]

That's what a Honda 2000 watt generator is for. After the generator heats the hot water, it also dries my wife's hair. Cruising doesn't have to be camping.

and it charges the batteries, laptop, blender, runs the ice maker, freezer, etc...

Yachting isn't camping...

 

[timvg]

And after her hair is dry, she can plug in her curling iron. A Honda 2000 generator is one of the best marriage enhancers you can buy.

 

[Gail R]

Easy post to make fun of but this is a bit of a problem for us women. My best advise is to find the perfect solution for your hair type and rely on that. For me with long hair, I find that after sailing my hat hair (bangs)i s my problem..I found that a bandana works great and my hair looks much better later when removing it. Find hats that compliment you and just perfect your "boat hair style"! Then as posted by others, use your dryer and curling iron when your back in your slip. We also have a small generator for emergency and who says that some time my need for a hair fix won't be considered an emergency!! and for the record, not every woman stops caring after a year!!!

Point of information: Just because some of us don't require the facilities to use a hair dryer on board doesn't mean we stopped caring. And for heaven's sake, you can fix your tresses so they look just perfect and all it takes is one gust of wind or a dinghy ride and the effort is completely wasted. So I either put on a baseball cap or a Tilley Hat.

A Honda 2000 generator is one of the best marriage enhancers you can buy.

Now there's something to make fun of. You can call it a marriage enhancer, but many of us call it obnoxious. Ever share an anchorage with someone running one of those? Guess what? They are NOT the least bit quiet. Here's a link to a photo of one of the most serene anchorages in Muscongus Bay, between Harbor and Hall Islands. To put it mildly, the people on the green power boat kind of wrecked our morning by running their handy Honda generator non-stop for hours. You can see the red generator on deck. Jerks.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_s4upDzInhYY/Sq2Sy8UsdCI/AAAAAAAABUM/fbTqB_Aw8QA/s640/IMGP2237.JPG

 

[MagothyBoy]

You could try and use a box fan. Does not have the heating element to burn up the bats. May be a good middle ground solution.

Kevin

 

[timvg]

Realistically, most of the generator use is for charging the batteries and hot water at anchor or on a mooring. Since it is not good for your engine to charge batteries by idling, we do use the generator for this. It's always important to see who is sitting in the cockpits of neighboring boats before running the generator.

 

[Gail R]

I'm sure you're very considerate about when you run your gas sucking, smelly, noisy generator. All of you are. :stirthepot:

In the 14 years we have been sailing our boat, I can probably count on one hand the number of times we've had to run the engine to charge our batts. Use energy wisely and you won't need to charge batts every few hours. Seriously, what in the world are people running on their boats that requires such a steady supply of juice? Do you really need to run refrigeration if you're only out for a weekend and could get by with a block and a bag? I just don't get it, but perhaps I'm just a bit of a Luddite.

Sorry for the T/J.

 

[Bad Obsession]

Many thanks to the people who have responded with some descent ideas. I am not sure what my Fiancee will do but I know that she will want something to make life easier for her since she will always care about the way she looks, especially if we are going out to a nice restaurant from the boat. I love being able to stay on the hook and not at a noisy dock.

The honda generator is a descent idea, but it is a bit to expensive for my tastes, I have no place to store it on board, and running it would also be a pain as I don't have a swim platform to stick it on and I don't think that it would be a good idea to run it in the cockpit of the boat. I also have to agree that it would ruin the beauty of a still anchorage. All of this and the fact that I really don't have a good place to store it. My boat is a Catalina 30, MKii, and where it has good amounts of storage, I don't want to have to modify it to store a generator.

A lot of us wonder why the women in our lives aren't excited to drop everything that they have and run to the boat with us. I believe that if we make the effort to make it a rewarding and pleasurable time for them they will be more apt to want to go. Yes, it is somewhat like camping and sometimes like roughing it...but it doesn't always have to be. There is a certain romance that goes with being aboard a cruising boat and if we can accentuate that and give our ladies some of the niceties to go along with it then maybe they would be more willing to be our cruising partners.

I care very deeply for my Fiancee and I want her to have the best and enjoy her time with me. If I can provide some small creature comforts to her to make it more comfortable for her then I am all for it. I truly intend to pamper her and make the cruise a true vacation for her.

Remember the old addage......If Momma ain't happy, nobody's happy!

 

[Don S/V ILLusion]

Gail
Before this degenerates, I'm sure you appreciate everyone is different; has different sensibilities and therefore looks at cruising differently. Also, when we were younger and sailed a 27 fter with an undependable manual toilet, no shower, one broken refrigerator, no hot water heater, etc.. and had only 2 small batteries, we "survived" just fine.

Been here... Don't like lugging ice anymore so than we would at home.

Now, we have 6 batteries, inverter, like having two showers, elec heads, A/C, 2 refrigerators, a freezer, ice maker, laptops, percolated coffee, etc.. and no one ever complained about our Honda 2000 noise (I've asked) which we run during reasonable hours of the day. It makes less noise than an inboard diesel.

There are many opinions and preferences, otherwise, we'd all be sailing the same boat.

 

[LuzSD]

OK, I am mistaken, we don't use a generator we use a
Wagan’s Power Doan
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wc...toreNum=10109&subdeptNum=10548&classNum=11274

It is wonderful! About $150 and is small! Great to take when traveling. Only downside is that it needs a full charge fairly often. Started our boat when batteries died last year....... has lots of cool features and as discussed before, if emergency bad hair, I could use it for that.

Just wanted to get off the list of people who run a generator around other people, we don't have one and don't care for that either.

 

[timvg]

Hi Gail,

I will admit it. I have a refrigerator and freezer, which are the main battery draws that require recharging. I choose not to cruise like I am camping in a tent. But my energy uses are far less than you most likely use in your home. When I am boating, I am not driving my car (wasting gasoline) to commute to work. When I shower on my boat, I use much less water than when you take a shower at home. Since I use less water, I use less energy to heat the water.

In fact, I live on my boat, so cruising is simply an act of unplugging from my dock. I would bet that my daily energy requirements are far less than what you use in your home. We believe strongly in conservation and even have a separate trash area in the boat for recycling.

My generator is quieter than my outboard engine, but since it does make some noise, I am considerate about when I use it. I hate the sound of my engine, but I do use it when not sailing. Life is a compromise.

 

[RECESS]

If you tap (tap and dye) the exhaust of the EU2000 and screw in a short pipe and then run a woven exhaust tube off the back of the boat and into the water, you have almost no chance of fumes making it into the boat and it reduces the noise down to darn near nothing.

Runs outside and hugs my EU2000

The tap and pipe addition takes about 20 minutes to do. Many automotive stores will loan you the tap if you do it in their parking lot. I have a friend with a full metal fabrication shop, so he did mine. He put in a tack so the vibration would not shake the pipe loose.

 

[Stu Jackson]

Seriously, what in the world are people running on their boats that requires such a steady supply of juice?

I don't know either, but looking at some of these posts answers the question: toaster ovens!!! toasters, electric coffee machines, sometimes the breadth of electrical appliances makes me want to move onto their boats - they have more electrical stuff than I do at home!

Don's got it right. He knows what he needs, and has added what he wants. But, and this is an important but, he understands SYSTEMS and has installed the necessary equipment to make it happen.

Altogether too often we hear "How come my electric coffee maker and electric toaster won't work with my inverter on my single Grp 24 house battery?"

You don't have to go coffee-less, and there have been more than enough "How to Maker Coffee on a Boat" threads to choke a horse. None of them require electricity. That's a choice. But some might, just might, buy a generator to support an electric toaster habit.

Takes all kinds.

I like our fridge, and can make ice with it on overnight. So I bring a small zip lock baggie of ice for the first might and make the rest. I just dodn't like dragging ice around. My choice. But I have a healthy sized house bank sized for the load. No generator, not my choice.

Your boat, your choice. Long as ya don;t disturb the neighbors.

 

[Scott B]

I've done the "roughing it" many years ago doing 1 - 2 week long canoe trips and hikes, carrying everything you need on your back or in a canoe, portages etc. ( although a friend of mine still gives me the gears over the cooler full of ice she helped portage one weekend and that was 30 yrs ago ) In fact, I've humped a canoe over the range in the background of my avatar.

Now...... I like my fridge, my cold beer, my steaks on the grill, the memory foam in the aft cabin, the DVD, stereo, .......... so really, I can't criticize Bad O for trying to make his fiancée happy and good for him to go out of his way to get someone thats not used to sailing "on board" and make it an activity they'll both enjoy. It's worked for me

 

[Stu Jackson]

I should add that we want for nothing on our boat. We're as comfortable as we are at home with an added benefit: no TV!