T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Electric Ericson 27 Long Beach California

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Electric Ericson 27 Long Beach California

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@yahoo.com> 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/list

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.