T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Outboard to Inboard

Monday, August 9, 2010

Re: [Electric Boats] Outboard to Inboard

This is pretty slick. http://www.sillette.co.uk/old/elect_saildrives.pdf

Still though, I'm thinking more like mounting more of a horizontal prop shaft versus a geared, vertical.

--- On Mon, 8/9/10, Daniel Michaels <nov32394@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Daniel Michaels <nov32394@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Outboard to Inboard
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 9, 2010, 4:29 PM

http://www.electric boats.co. uk/motorinfo. html
The other way to do it is with a Torquedo outboard and just remove the saft mounting the head right on the bottom of the boat. Then use the remote control unit. All you would need is a 1" hole in the bottom to attach the unit. Plus if you made some kind of attachment you could still turn the motor head for direction (Just a small knob).

Dan

--- On Mon, 8/9/10, Eric <ewdysar@yahoo. com> wrote:

From: Eric <ewdysar@yahoo. com>
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Outboard to Inboard
To: electricboats@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Monday, August 9, 2010, 3:21 PM

Dan,

They who? I haven't seen an electric saildrive yet and I think that it could be an effective answer for many conversions.

Thanks,
Eric

--- In electricboats@ yahoogroups. com, Daniel Michaels <nov32394@...> wrote:
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> They make a very small electric sail drive. Like you said just a small hole and mount the unit....
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> Dan
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> --- On Mon, 8/9/10, Richard <richardbell10668@ ...> wrote:
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> From: Richard <richardbell10668@ ...>
> Subject: [Electric Boats] Outboard to Inboard
> To: electricboats@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Monday, August 9, 2010, 11:31 AM
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> 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.
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