Thanks, I'm no authority on the White family, just happened to visit 'the T'ville boat shop' just before the time everyone was hooked up to the internet or before I knew Robb White wrote for Wooden Boat and other. But he seemed quite happy that I liked pokin' around on the water, and knew many of the same watery places in which one can poke. I hope some of the water oriented Whites will continue to 'slap'em together', their collective good workshop, boating & plain ole pokin' around example has enabled lots of people to begin playing with materials and designs - and combine old methods with new materials.
So, . . . back to electric boating and extended travel with electric.
An extended travel electric boat with the ELECTRIC wagging the dog's tail, not a sail-boat with small/minor electric power is what I'd like to construct, and have the workshop space and time in which to do so.
Lee-board(s) could be added to the tunnel-stern designs sail to increase the range. Sails would be in proportion to the size of the craft as with canoe or kayak sails to those boats.
Each 'easy off the shelf' change of state seems to be expensive :
solar to electricity,
internal combustion to electricity,
water/prop re-charge to electricity,
wind to electricity (docked),
or stationary bike to electicity,
and so on.
And electric storage is quite expensive for the amount of total mileage/life of the battery bank/storage, though as one of the links pointed out above that the slower one can travel, the more mileage comes from a battery charge, and I suppose that also means a bank of batteries could ultimately pack in double or triple the miles or more than storage banks that were quickly dis-charged.
I'll continue to read the links and posts, thanks for continuing to consider and respond to this thread.
Tom Johnson
Pine Mountain, Georgia
--- In electricboats@
>
> She's Robb White the boatbuilder'
> author (Robb the boatbuilders dad). Robb White the elder wrote a bunch of
> novels (Up Periscope is one) and also a lot of the old Perry Mason TV show
> episodes. Confusing, eh?
>
> Jerry Barth
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: electricboats@
> On Behalf Of Skip von Niederinghausen
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:56 AM
> To: electricboats@
> Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] electric prop and re-charging
>
>
>
>
>
> FYI
>
> June Bailey White is Robb's daughter, not his sister..
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Jerry Barth <shredderf16@
> <mailto:shredderf16
>
>
>
> Tom,
>
> I'm a big fan of Robb White and his fascinating family. I go down to
> the BVIs a lot and have seen the house his mother and father built on Marina
> Cay. For those of you not familiar with him, his sister Bailey White has
> written some very good books. Robb's last book "Flotsam and Jetsam" just
> came out a couple of months ago, edited by his sister after his death. It's
> well worth the $10 at Amazon. The pictures I've seen of Rescue Minor
> running fast in 6 inches of water are very interesting. I wonder if you
> would have to get the boat up on a plane to get that shoal draft like that,
> or would it do it at displacement speeds? I believe he said it got on a
> plane at about 10 knots, although I'd have to recheck to be sure. I've
> always wondered what happened to him, one month he was writing in Wooden
> Boat and the next month he had passed on.
>
> Jerry Barth
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: electricboats@ <mailto:electricboats@
> [mailto:electricboa
> yahoogroups.
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 9:32 AM
> To: electricboats@ <mailto:electricboats@
> Subject: [Electric Boats] electric prop and re-charging
>
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>
> 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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