T-Pain Is On A Boat: RE: [Electric Boats] 26' Bayliner

Sunday, June 26, 2011

RE: [Electric Boats] 26' Bayliner

Ditto…and with 8 salmon having been hooked from my electric in the past year, it's the unexpected things that are appreciated: Less need to anchor at all as you can dial in a speed that just cancels wind or current; trolling speeds much more adjustable; less noise (for you and the fish); fellow fisherman (either onboard or nearby) who are impressed.

From: electricboats@yahoogroups.com [mailto:electricboats@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Capt. Mike
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 5:43 AM
To: ELECTRIC BOAT GROUP
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] 26' Bayliner

Jeff

I sail but, I've watched a lot of the local fishermen head out and maybe drop anchor a mile or two from the harbor entrance to fish. It always seemed to me they could easily convert to electric and since the electric is so quiet they could troll on the way out with improved results since the electric won't scare the fish away like a noisy ICE would.

Capt. Mike

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From: Jeff Gomes <jnlgomes@yahoo.com>

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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:03:42 -0700 (PDT)

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Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] 26' Bayliner

Well I wasn't expecting anywhere close to the current speed But was hoping to at least pull out at least 8 knots for 6 hours and was thinking about adding a small diesel gen set some solar panels and some tow able generators. I realize all that would also add to the weight witch adds to the load on the batteries. Anyway I am living in the Azores and fuel is a killer here and I just want to be able to take the boat out do some fishing and come back Or maybe Cruz from one island to another or stay out a day or two on the water. No big hurry for anything here really laid back. Well unless the wind picks up fast witch it does some times here

Thanks!

Jeff S Gomes

--- On Sat, 6/25/11, Eric <ewdysar@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Eric <ewdysar@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] 26' Bayliner
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2011, 10:37 PM

Hi Jeff,

Like James said, if you don't mind a max speed of about 5kts, then you might consider electric. Put another way, think of your boat repowering your boat with a 10hp outboard. You should get the same performance as that, just like John's conversion on You Tube.

Going faster will take a much more powerful electric drive. So it depends on how you use your boat today.

An easy question in "how much gas do you usually use in a single day on the water?" Just thinking about the batteries, if you use golf cart style batteries, the usable equivelent of a 1 gallon gas tank will weigh about 800 pounds and cost about $2000. Upgrading to AGM will drop the weight to about 750 pounds and cost about $4000. Going high tech, you could buy Lithium cells that only weigh 350 pounds and cost about $6200. All of that for a "gas tank" that drive your boat as far as 1 gallon of gas today.

If you usually use 5 gallons of gas in a day, then multiply the numbers listed above by 5 and you'll be in the ballpark.

If this sound OK, then we can start trying to figure out what kind of drive (electric motor) can deliver your desired level of performance.

Fair winds,
Eric
Marina del Rey, CA

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, James Sizemore <james@...> wrote:
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> If you don't mind traveling at 4 to 5 knots, then you should be able to get a few hours worth of battery power in the boat. There would likely be little if any in weight savings, after adding the batteries. If on the other hand you want to travel at the boats normal 20 knots then unless you have a generator as large as the motor your removing, the batteries range would be counted in minutes not hours of travel time.
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