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Jon W-  thanks for putting out such a detailed account of your upgrade. I will be using that as my reference.

I'm going to hold off on solar for now. Going to get the house bank dialed in and get the boat home. Thanks again for all of the support.

It would just be for supplemental cruising. Overkill?  Was looking at adding a 20A solar panel.

Thank you for the help. I was also wanting to install a solar panel. Is there any reason I can't tie it directly to the house bank? 

 New owner here. Just purchased our first Catalina, hull 292. We need to move the boat from St. Joseph, MI to Duluth, MN. I would like to upgrade the house battery bank to four Trojan golf cart batteries and relocate the starting battery. I have read through many of the other posts regarding electrical upgrades. At the point I was hoping to just upgrade the batteries now and deal with other upgrades later. Is it possible to just upgrade the batteries for the journey without upgrading to an echo charger or making other upgrades?