Spark,
Are you going to be on a mooring or at a dock? If you have functional diesel motors, why not just keep them and add solar to reduce your electrical costs (the solar power system will cost you some)? If there is a need to repower due to non operational motors, that seems to be an economic decision. I would think finding a good boat with bad gas motors would be a better economic option.
I have spoken to a number of powerboat users who have gas and there seems to be an interest to put electric in them to lower the high cost and other issues with gas motors. They would need to give up a lot of their top end as the boats will not plane without an extraordinary motor and battery system. We have done some projections to move a 12000 pound displacement boat at up to 7 knots but with a good cruise speed and range at 4 to 5 knots. It would be a bay cruiser only. It would be a good live aboard without the fuel issues. Space for batteries was ok, but limited range.
Now I have thought about finding a nice single engine (gas or diesel) trawler. I would install a hybrid electric that would push the boat at about 5 knots and have an inexpensive system with back up and a generator capacity with the ICE/electric motor. Just day dreams.
Mike – Electric Yachts of Southern California
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Lochadio Who <lochadio@...> wrote:
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> Hay spark,
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> We're puzzled, what's the nature of your game?
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> Just kidding, you found the right place.
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> I'm not an engineer or anything but you might want to think that design thru a little farther.
> With a diesel engine and generators and batteries and a couple of outboards and room to live and a hull with enough displacement to keep it all afloat ....and a dingy.
> That's an awful lot of boat.
> I'd be worried the first place it went was to the bottom.
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> Welcome aboard
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> Mark
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> Â
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> ________________________________
> From: Gabe <exp30002@...>
> To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 7:08 PM
> Subject: [Electric Boats] Well, I am pleased to meet you, won't you guess my name.
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> Â
> Hello;
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> Just as an introduction:
> My idea would be to buy a motor boat with functioning disel engine.
> Than I would put two electric outboard motor on it with a battery pack or two. May be an electric generator or two. And may be a few solar
> panels or to cover whatever surface possible.
>
> Is it possible to pull a dingy, covered with solar panels, to
> increase the number of solar panels?
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> How far could boat like that go?
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> If I can live on a boat like that instead of paying rent for an
> appartment, I might be able to pay for it all.
>
> Is this the right place to post ideas like this?
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> Respectfully yours;
>
> spark
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