Sunday, December 20, 2009

[Electric Boats] Batteries as ballast

 

Hi I have been lurking this site for a while thought I would finally post something. Has anyone actually built a monohull sailboat and incorporated the batteries as part or all of the ballast? My old 29 foot Colombia had a 4000lb lead keel. If even half of that had been batteries it would have provided a pretty good range wouldn't it? Of course it would require designing & building a boat with a keel that could accomidate the batteries. I was intrested if anyone has attempted to do this. Seems like it would aleviate some of the issues involved with modifiying an existing boat.

Geff

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