Tom,
I appreciate all the discussion you've invited with your introductory post. A simpler auxiliary sail system could be kites. They don't work with any significant upwind headway, but with the wind from the side or the stern, they work wonders. Supertankers are starting to adopt them.
One of the first companies: http://kiteforsail.
Tanker market: http://www.skysails
Thanks again for speaking up.
Mark Stafford
Herreshoff H55 Marco Polo sailboat project
Solar/Electric GEO Metro creator/driver
GreenMarineRePower.
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> Just joined 'electric boats'.
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> 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.
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> 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/
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> 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.
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> A shallow draft motor boat with 150 to 250+ mile range or further became a long-term construction goal.
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> 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.
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> Components off-the-shelf: E-tek electric motor, Honda generator &, hopefully, solar.
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> I've definitely decided to use an Atkins plan, due to the economic 'protected' prop and shallow draft of their tunnel-draft designs.
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> 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.
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> Thanks so much,
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> Tom H. Johnson, Jr.
> Pine Mountain, Georgia
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