T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Lyman 13 restoration

Monday, August 15, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] Lyman 13 restoration

After sending previous email, I scrolled further down and was able to open the pictures. Beautiful boat! Set up with the torgeedo looks like what I am looking for. Where did you purchase and how much? Were you able to install yourself or did you have dealer install?

From: Robert Hargraves <robert.hargraves@gmail.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Robert Hargraves <robert.hargraves@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:00 PM
Subject: [Electric Boats] Lyman 13 restoration

It appears that email posting shouldn't have pictures, so I loaded them into the album "Lyman 13'". The text below assumes the pictures are in 1, 2, 3, order, which they are not in the album.

Bob Hargraves

After 5 weeks I have finished restoring the 1952 Lyman 13 and adding electric propulsion.

I mounted the Minnkota 2 bank battery charger on the back of the forward seat.

You can see the batteries below it.

The helm station has the Torqeedo throttle to port. The speedometer on the right is for show; the pitot tube has been removed; the boat will never again reach 40 mph.

Below is a close-up of two Optima 12 volt 75 Ah AGM batteries, in series.

The life jackets are suspended on bungee cords.

Here's the new bilge pump; no float switch to jam; it turns on for 2 seconds every 2.5 minutes. If there is no water there is not much current draw so it knows to shut off. To the right is a stern jump seat, under which are the cables that connect the Torqeedo motor to battery lines.

On the starboard quarter are a manual bilge pump and a paddle, just in case, secured with bungee cords.

Here's a close up of the Torqeedo 2.0 kW motor. The black hose to port is a washing machine drain hose that directs the bilge pump output over the transom.

A view of the Torqeedo; big prop, high torque at low rpm; motor in pod at bottom.

Here are the Optima AGM batteries, on their sides, in series, seen from the bow, looking aft from the front seat. The lips of the batteries are seized between the floorboards, so as not to move fore and aft. Above you can see two boards that are wedged between the batteries to keep them from jumping up and down as the boat encounters wake or waves.

The 24 volt DC wiring has an on/off switch, mounted under the helm seat, out of wetness.

The aft port jump seat serves to protect the connector between the battery cables (right) and the motor cables. The white and gray wires are for the (future) stern light and bilge pump.