Aye, but there's the rub. Cost/benefit is ALWAYS a factor. My canoe cost me $300, the trailer $150, the motor AND batteries about $350. Even with seats, solar panel and other accessories it comes in at around $1000. As equipped it will do 5 mph and can cruise at full speed for several hours.
I simply couldn't justify the price of a Torqeedo on such a rig, no matter HOW good it is. On a bigger, heavier, more expensive boat the situation might be different.
Willie
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Per A Lorentzen <LorentzenP@...> wrote:
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> Others know more than me and will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that if cost/benefit is not a factor, the Torqeedo will demonstrate significantly greater overall efficiency due to more efficient motor/controls; faired shaft yielding less hydrodynamic drag; lower overall system weight, and novel, proprietary prop design more suited to your application (vs slow-speed propulsion of heavier fishing craft and weed-shedding as for trolling motors).
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> But purchase cost, new or used, will be substantially higher.
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