Tuesday, June 8, 2010

[Electric Boats] Re: new to the group

 

Hi James, I've read about someone converting a jetski some time ago. The problem with jet drives is that they are most efficient at higher speeds in planing hulls. This would reduce the effective range of an electric boat.

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, ja gaudino <james4078@...> wrote:
>
> New to the group
> Has anyone ever put an electric motor onto a jet drive system.
> I have been working on this project for the past couple months, it has two jet drives systems attached to a small 16 ft boat. not quite sure how to do the math on what size motor is needed to get the boat up on plain.
> I am also thinking of starting a video tutorial on the progress of this project.
> after this small project I got my eye on doing a 32ft Trojan sport fisher, anyone do anything like this?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> James A Gaudino sr.
>

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