[Electric Boats] Electric motors for a 30' pontoon boat

 

Hi,
I just joined the group.

Here in Canada I am operating a littles ',ferry'' which is a 30 footer that connect two bicycle paths from on shore to the other on a little arm of St. Lawrence river (less then one mile); the ponoon is a 12 passengers with their bikes.

Usually I work with 2 30 HP outboard Mercs.

Yesterday one of them broke (he is 10 years old) and I used the new one that we bought last year.
I guess that the old one will be out of service soon and I am thinking to replace it with ''home made'' electric outboard motors.
I made tests yesterday with the the new motor and, reving it at about 1/3 of the maximum revolutions (which I guess would be around 10 HP) made the run only one minute and a half longer than when I was going almost full throttle. Which is fairly reasonable.

So I am looking for plans to built 2 electric drives which could give me around 10 HP each, to fix them on the tubes and keep the new Merc motor aboard as a ''spare'' a security motor if anything goes wrong with the electric motors.

I looked at the Glen-L Electric Drive and it does not seem to difficult to convert this ''inboard-outboard'' to an outboard.

Does somebody have any suggestions or other and better plans to suggest?

Thanks in advance.
Ben

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