At 29 pounds, you won’t break your back carrying the Honda 1000i Super Quiet to and from the boat.

It’s been a few years since we last wrote about ultra-portable generators, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been looking at them covetously.

They’re more interesting, and more mainstream, it seems to us, than the big, high-capacity, permanently mounted gensets with dedicated wiring and through-hull exhausts, used to make electricity when the main engines are idle in the yachts of the idle rich. (Resentful? Us?) Mid-sized and even small rack-carried generators just don’t seem to have a place–they’re too heavy to lug around, too big to stow, too noisy, and too noxious. …