As boater it behooves us to use proper care and judgment, most importantly, the proper selection of the boat for the application. One would never use a pontoon boat to cross the Atlantic, but it is not unheard of doing a major crossing with sails alone. If your situation requires you to have inboard diesel, that is what you need to use. That said it doesn't make other designs inferior. Someone mentioned the risk of setting up a generator during rough weather, the same could be said about an outboard auxiliary, which there are certainly many more. However, with the outboard, that is their primary auxiliary, not the secondary auxiliary as would be the generator. I sailed for many years without an engine on a 28 foot sailboat. When I did some coastal cruising and needed to make up time, I would use my dingy as a yawl boat, not something I would set up during rough weather but a perfectly acceptable process.
Dave
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Matthew Geier <matthew@...> wrote:
>
> On 20/03/11 02:31, James Lambden wrote:
> >
> > Hopefully there is a fuel cell coming soon.
> >
> But what do you intend to run the fuel cell on ?.
>
> They typically run on Hydrogen, but Hydrogen is expensive to make and
> difficult to store.
>
> The first commercially viable fuel cell could very well end up running
> on a light hydrocarbon fuel. You still won't have escaped from having
> petrol on board.
>
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