There are a couple good boats for electric conversions:
· Charles Mathys’ Electric Propulsion for Boats
· Douglas Little’s Electric Boats and it looks like Mathys now has another one out:
· My Electric Boats by Charles Mathys
-Myles Twete
26’ electric wooden scow barge cruiser: www.evalbum.com/348 (now celebrating 10 years with electric power)
From: electricboats@yahoogroups.com [mailto:electricboats@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Janice Marois
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:12 AM
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Standard boat data collection
This is EXACTLY the sort of information I could use. Size of motor, AC versus DC, (horsepower?), weight of boat, windage (brand helps), battery bank size, amperage used at full, 3/4, half and 1/4 throttle........
Or, a source for same?
At this point I'm exploring the possibility of going electric (er, DC) but where others have tread before me would be helpful. I've a small power boat (boxy, 7k pounds -- a sister ship sold on Yachtworld earlier this month -- Schucker 23') and must admit the theory sounds wonderful. 'Tis the practicalities that bite the budget.
J, with lots to learn.
Is there a "bible" for electric boats such as Calder's for cruising boats?
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:01 AM, oak wrote:
It would probably take a better volunteer than me to compile and organize this, but wouldn't it be great if we could somehow put together a document or web page that had a collection of "standard" boats, motors, and battery configurations?
The Catalina 30 and 22, the Erickson, the Duffy - these are all well known boats.
If we had a collection of motors / batteries, and the data for each - then for anyone new that was seriously looking at converting an existing boat, they'd have a MUCH better idea of what they were getting into.
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