Just joined 'electric boats'.
Over the next year & 1/2 I plan to built an 20 to 25 foot Atkins tunnel-stern, most likely the Everhope or Shoal Runner plan. I lived Thomasville, Georgia and visited the late Robb White's workshop before starting on my first canoe, 2 hours with him was like a graduate how-to and how-not to full graduate level class.
Subsequently, we moved away from T'ville, and I started off with an 18ft basswood stripper canoe. Over the past 25 years I've constructed 9 canoe or bateau type boats, the largest being 20+ feet. After construction, most have been used for ten or twelve day fishing/canoeing treks in Georgia/Florida/
I also lived on the ICW at St. Simons for two years and talked to all sorts of folks traveling the ICW from New England or the Great Lakes to Florida & the Bahamas. The smallish size of some of the boats crossing 'big/deep' salt or fresh water surprised me.
A shallow draft motor boat with 150 to 250+ mile range or further became a long-term construction goal.
Construction for trip & use: a shallow draft Atkins hull using electric motor propulsion & a LARGE battery bank with a dual or triple re-charge system by: 1. generator, 2. plug-in, 3. perhaps solar.
Components off-the-shelf: E-tek electric motor, Honda generator &, hopefully, solar.
I've definitely decided to use an Atkins plan, due to the economic 'protected' prop and shallow draft of their tunnel-draft designs.
But for propulsion, any & all suggestions about the dependability & size needed for electric motors, generators and solar will be appreciated. And, of course, where to find such.
Thanks so much,
Tom H. Johnson, Jr.
Pine Mountain, Georgia
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