Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Newport Vessel trolling motors spec sheet

 

John,

I quite agree.  I have a  high pressure floor inflatable, 8.5', with a Torqeedo  1005.  I love the motor but the only way it would push the dingy 13 mph would be with a 7 knot current.


1200W is 1.6hp.  No way, just ain't going happen

Eric SV Meander



---In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, <oak_box@...> wrote :

I'd really be curious to see some documented evidence of 13+mph on a 6.5' dingy of ANY kind with a trolling motor.

Maybe that's the "theoretical" speed of the prop if it was 100% efficient???
But if my calculations are correct, hull speed of a 6.5' dingy is somewhere around 4mph.  Getting three times that with a trolling motor at 1200W just does not seem very likely at all.

If anyone has a small dingy in the Austin, Texas area, I have a 24V and a 48V Torqeedo that I'd be willing to mount on it and see what it will do.

John



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