Posted by Adam Quinan on August 28, 2006 at 12:17:50 from 72.136.51.111 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: What People Post (or should or shouldn't!) posted by John Lambert on August 28, 2006 at 10:00:26:
John Lambert: To have a microwave Captain Flint would have needed a battery or batteries. To charge them, the houseboat would have had to be mobile. Somehow I can't see it steaming all over the lake.
Many static "marina cruisers" have a small windmill or a bank of solar photovoltaic cells to maintain their battery charge. If he didn't use it too often, he could probably power his microwave as well as his laptop/DVD player.