T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Repowering Macgregor 26x

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Re: [Electric Boats] Repowering Macgregor 26x

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Matthew Geier <matthew@...> wrote:

> >
> Ignoring the near impossibility of carrying enough battery to get the
> speed endurance you want, on the above river my charts say vessels over
> 7m should maintain 'idle speed' the entire way from Tea Gardens to Tamboy.
> Getting enough 'power to plane' would be irrelevant :-)
>
> I did the first long run endurance trial of my e-boat conversion on the
> Myall river up from Tea Gardens - was the first time I tested running my
> Honda EU20i while under power. Don't think we got more than half way up
> the river before we had to turn around and head back to make sure we got
> back to Winda Woppa before it started to get dark - I don't have
> navigation lights fitted.
>
> We did get passed by a few boats who obviously didn't know what 'no
> wash' and 'idle speed' meant.
>

The Myall River is a bad example with it's no-wash zones, the last time I went along there was in a Jarcat5 with 5hp Seagull outboard, three people and 2 weeks worth of gear, we were lucky if we created a wake, empty we couldn't get up on a plane.

The Myall River was only an example, we would like to repower and keep some of the performance of a 40-70HP outboard, performance is one of the reasons that we were attracted to the Macgregor.

Glenn