Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] re: Hybrid drive

 

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:01:34AM -0700, rob linda wrote:
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> Dear Arby,
> Your story about the Coastguard acting on "brushes in the bilge" doesn't make
> sense at all, if they were happy with the replacement diesels, since the
> starter motors of those diesels were brushed as well and living in the bilge,
> so what was gained?
> According to you, NO electric starting ICE boats would be sea-legal.
> One of us must be a little confused...

How about those nice Sherwood or ATT pumps, _designed_ to sit in the
bilge? Brushed motors in both, and every single *commercial* fishing
vesel I've seen has at least a few on board. Yeah, something is off.

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Ben Okopnik
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