Charlie,
Not me, but there are some big industry, big dollar efforts playing with marine hybrids. The reasonable target: more fuel efficient planing. It makes sense to use both motors (oil & electric) to climb out of the water, and size the ICE for planing. ICEs otherwise have to be oversized because climbing out of the water is the hard part. Once on plane, you throttle back for efficiency, but running the ICE near full power should be more efficient.
In Europe, they just go slow; single hull canal house boats, lots of them.
Mark Stafford
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "cgirsch01" <charlie@...> wrote:
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> I've been a fly on the wall for the past month or so, taking in all your wisdom/experience.
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> I see that much of the conversation is about sail boat conversions. My interest is to build out a 40 - 50 foot floating cabin on the Mississippi. I lean toward a three tube pontoon configuration and the possibility of grabbing some junked Honda, Ford, or Toyota hybrid set ups (possibly including CVT transmission) to move it about.
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> My question - anybody out there playing with this size effort?
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> Charlie
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