Saturday, January 22, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] Dragon 30 sailboat going electric

 

Claude,

In their old catalog, Torqeedo used the Dragon as an example for one of their outboard's performance . As I recall, their 800 watt unit pushed it along at hull speed. One of their 1 or 2 kw units and a couple of group 31agm's should do nicely without messing up the hull. You could do this all for less than $3k including a charger and outboard bracket. The Dragon is such a beautiful daysailer. Enjoy. 
I have a Torqeedo 801L on my Cape Dory Typhoon, 2500 lbs, for the past 3 years and it gets me back from the middle of the Chesapeake when the wind dies.
Ned

On Jan 21, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Richard Mair wrote:

 

The Dragons that I know are a sleek narrow boat built for racing.Beautiful boat but I have only ever seen one with any kind of power and that was a 12 volt trolling motor that was only put on to leave and enter the marina..If we are talking about the same boat I do not know where you would put batteries..You would need a lot of modification to fit a shaft through the hull.
Richard


--- On Fri, 1/21/11, Claude <carbour42@yahoo.ca> wrote:

From: Claude <carbour42@yahoo.ca>
Subject: [Electric Boats] Dragon 30 sailboat going electric
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Received: Friday, January 21, 2011, 3:05 PM

 

Hi everyone,

As I am bringing back to life a 1947 Dragon 30 , I will add electric propulsion. Going through hull with brushless technology. Anyboby out there has done that on a Dragon?

Claude



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