You won't lose much range by going with brushed motors, if at all. Changing brushes is really the only extra maintenance, and you might easily go 10 years before they need to be changed. The real issue with brushed motors is you can't have gasoline or propane accessories aboard. And in fact you would also probably want to be aware of the remote possibility of a hydrogen explosion though actually being lighter than air, it won't accumulate in your bilges like the other stuff.
If I were doing it all over again, I would probably give a strong second look at brushed motors, because of the simplicity and low cost of the "dumb" PWM controllers on fleabay, and the low cost of used forklift and golf cart motors. And if you don't keep a spare $60 Chinese controller handy and the one you got starts leaking smoke, you can get to your slip by jumping from an appropriate voltage point in your battery bank. Can't do that with BLDC, no.
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