Before Onne and Tenley van der Wal went down the Intracoastal Waterway on their 1986 Grand Banks 32 Snow Goose, Onne wanted to be sure that everything on the boat was in perfect working order. That included the electrical system, which he found inadequate.
The Grand Banks had 12- and 110-volt analog meters, but the 12-volt unit didn’t tell him how much was flowing in or out, and the 110-volt meter only told him when shore power was coming in. For Onne, that wasn’t good enough. He wanted to know how many amps he was using. “I wanted to know what was going in and what was going out in terms of 12 and 110 volt,” he says.
