>
>
> Eric offered: "I would rather be subtle, I'm not one for shouting
> about my project."
>
> Same here Eric.
>
> While I have always been gung-ho in converting my boat, writing about
> it, celebrating electric, etc., at its moorage or in the water, I've
> never wanted to bring too much attention to it being electric. Some
> reasons to opt for being a bit discreet with your conversion:
>
> ·Security concerns---you've invested thousands of dollars into your
> conversion and you may have valuable components right there, easy to
> steal. If your moorage is uber-safe, if your E-components are not
> easily accessible or if you have a trailerable boat, then you don't
> have much to worry about. For the rest of us, you have tradeoffs to
> think about.
>
> I didn't start off with this view---after converting my outboard to
> electric, I wanted to repaint it and make some bold "hey it's elect
> ric" statement. I had similar thoughts about the hull. But then I
> thought about how I'd feel if I came out and found the motor or
> batteries were stolen.
>
Given the price of copper - and issues electric railways have had with
theft of cables - I wouldn't be advertising too loudly that your moored
boat is full of nice juicy copper cables....
The tram museum (street cars) that I'm a member of has had some one
break into a (distant) storage shed and take to the stored tram car
bodies with an axe looking for the motor cables.
> Then as I spent more and more time out on the boat on the river as an
> electric, I found it so much more enjoyable to have people */figure it
> out /*that the boat must be electric rather than my telling them with
> some boisterous, loud symbol of any sort. The smart ones get it---the
> others? It doesn't really matter to me I guess. Trolling for salmon
> next to other boaters that cock their heads, then say "wow, that must
> be electric" is much more fun than if I made it painfully obvious,
> openly gloated or overly EV-promoted it in any way.
>
I find that bit fun too - when out on the local waterways, my boat
attracts attention due to it's traditional lines and 'pointy rear end'.
Then they notice something else is 'wrong' - no engine noise, the 'put
put' sound is missing.....
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