I was talking with a buddy at the marina over the weekend about converting my S2 with saildrive to electric. The conversation started over a few beers while we performed a tuneup on his old 5 horse Tohatsu out board. He brought up the question of converting his outboard Pearson 26 to an inboard electric. While there is plenty of space under the cockpit to mount batteries, motor, and charger, there's obviously no prop shaft. If I'm right, saildrive is just a large hole cut in the hull with a glassed in fairing /mounting base. After a few more beers, we decided that adding a prop shaft would be doable if a good design was implemented.
This morning, without the influence of Tecate, it seems a whole lot easier to hang an electric outboard out back. But I'm still wondering: Has anybody done an outboard to inboard conversion successfully?
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