Nice looking boat. Do you have any performance data, i.e. knots to watts? It can really help compare your project to others.
Fair winds and smooth seas,
Eric
Marina del Rey, CA
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> I just posted in files a couple of pictures and a data sheet on our electric launch that we had built a couple of years ago using modified plans of a hobby steam boat. It is powered by a 12 volt Minn Kota running on 24 volts to get better prop speed at lower amps, as Dennis has described in his blog on the sailboat he powered with a Minn Kota. We haven't put on a flange yet to the motor post because we have about seven hours at hull speed on the little boat (to get down to a 30% charge according to the charge computer) and that is too long as it is for my wife and me to sit in that boat together with nearly no noise except the water and our conversaion. The batteries and all electrics are in a center seat about where the boiler is shown on the drawing, at the designer's suggestion. Under the bulkhead below the tiller are the only two controls: a pot for the speed and a push-pull switch for forward-reverse. The key switch, depth finder, and battery computer are under the seat facing aft so the person stearing can see them. Sorry to hijack this post, but I did find the inexpensivee Minn Kota, with a better prop and a controller, to work well on our small boat. (We just cut the wires leading to the resistors and used only the main leads.) Of course, our hull speed is nothing to brag about, but then again we aren't really using the boat to go anywhere.
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