Hi Don,
To answer your question about battery access, 2 batteries are located under the port and starboard cabin seats. The other 2 are in a battery box located where the gas tank used to be. If you look at the pictures you can see that access is fair with cushions and wood covers removed however, hopefully I wont have to get to them too often. The boat is pretty balanced but sits a bit lower in the stern than she used to. I was hoping to fit all 4 batteries under the cabin seats but those big 8D's just wouldnt fit under the forward lockers. I moved the house bank from the aft starboard cabin seat locker to under the starboard (coffin) bed.
I hear you about keeping the speeds down to conserve battery power, I just wanted to see how the electric motor would handle. Apparently very well. :-)
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, <postal6@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Jonathan, I too have an Ericson 27 (1974) and installed the Electric
> Yacht kit about five years ago. I am very happy about it and I have had
> not one problem with it. I usually try to keep the speeds under 3 knots
> to conserve the power juice. Do you have an easy access to the batteries
> ? I installed all four wet cell batteries where the old single battery
> was under the starboard bed.
>
> Don Swanson
>
> On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 16:40:01 -0000 "jonathanheirendt"
> <jonathanheirendt@...> writes:
>
> Hi all,
> Just returning from my boat in Long Beach. My son and I had a very
> productive trip! Here are some pictures of how the rest of the
> installation went:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electricboats/photos/album/247467376/pic/li
> st
>
> The coupling set screw was able to come right out due to the penetrant
> left on there for several weeks I suppose. After that, the coupling came
> right of with the puller, No heat. We had to build a new battery box for
> 2 of the new batteries where the gas tank used to sit. It's all glassed
> in and very solid. Once everything was in place and hooked up we went for
> a shakedown cruise around the harbor on the 4th of July.
> everything worked great! We motored around for about 2 hours and went
> approximately 4 to 5 miles at speeds ranging from 3 to 7 knots. When we
> returned to the slip we had drained the batteries to about 79%.
> So far I am very pleased with the electric Yacht kit and I cant wait to
> get back to the boat to spend more time on the water!
> We are planning a trip to Catalina at the end of July so that will be a
> good test of the sailing charecteristics with the new prop and using a
> generator to recharge etc.
>
>
>
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