T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Hi there

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] Hi there

This forum is filled with mostly sail boat owners that are not terribly upbeat on any type of power boats over the size of a canoe. On the other hand the European boat clubs are almost exclusively powerboats and ferries. There are hundreds of daily use electric ferries in active use in europe the european boat clubs would have a lot more experience with ferry question then any answers you will get here. But feel free to ask questions.

Is your boat measurement 12 meters by 4 meters? What size battery pack are you planning on using? The bigger the prop the better.

Here are some links you might find helpful:

http://www.electric-boats.org.uk/solar.htm

http://www.solarshuttle.co.uk/ssgallery.html

http://www.solarwaterworld.de/en.html

http://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm

http://cshare.psu.edu/projects/sunboat/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=10

http://solarboat.co/faq.shtml

http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/4510

http://www.grove-boats.com/en/electric-boats/aquabus-c60

http://www.aquawatt.at/en/

On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:15 AM, suwanpi wrote:

Hi!
My name is Suwan Pitaksintorn, a new member of the group.
I work for National Park of Thailand.
I come up with the idea for ecofriendly boat. Yes, electric boat for some marine NP.
I have been planed to build a solar boat to show visitor that we can enjoy and work in NP without using gas and spill out more pollution.
Now, my team setting up the boat plan like this
We going to build a 12x4 fiberglass catamaran solar boat for 17 passengers (dayly use). There are two motors (3000-5000w each) for safty reason and power. The motors drive the propeller through a long shaft (as longtail boat, commonly use in Thailand). We plan to sail from Bangkok to the most south of Thailand for 700 km distance (with 4 passengers). The boat will then operate in Tarutao NP for multipurpose use but maintly to show the ecofriendly boat.
However, I still looking for every knowlege, experiences and comments from anyone to make the best of it, particularly the motors, gear reduction and propeller's size.
I will explore the site but if you have any comment or recommendations, please tell me.

Suwan