Hi Michael, Rush and All, I'm doing a solar powered one now to move on when my house sells. Heavy old style wood boats are not the best choice for EV use unless they are racer./fast types that just needs 4 -10 mile range to get out to sailing area and later coming back to the dock.
If the boat is a very good sailboat it works as you are mostly sailing. Also you can use sailing power to recharge the batteries from the spinning prop. Best EV boats are light trailer sailers that need little power to move and can hold decent battery weight without a problem. longer and leaner/canoe style are best as the most eff thus why mine is a 34' trimaran. It'll have both EV motor and tidal generator and wind generator though they are really doing life testing. Eventually I'l put up 1kw of PV to run everything including the A/C needed to survive the summer. So no lack of electric power plus a gasoline DC generator from my lightweight EV 's range extender. Rush you can have him email me with details of the boat for a better idea if it's viable. I use forklift motors and contactor controllers as 3 speeds and reverse is enough for much lower costs. Though if regen// tidal power is wanted a PM or AC motor needs to be used but they are not that expensive anymore. My body no longer allows me to do that kind of bending work but happy to help with advice.. It takes me 4-8x's the time to do things as I use to. but with good planning I can still do things, just takes longer. Jerry Dycus On Friday, December 27, 2013 8:47 PM, Michael Hurley <[email protected]> wrote: On Dec 26, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Steve Clunn <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anybody have any experience in converting a sailboat, 40ft wooden hull, > from a diesel to electric? My dad wants to take out his smelly diesel and > replace it with Elec motor, batteries and generator. The boat is presently > on the Eastern shore, he is in FL. Jerry Dycus (on this list) lives in Florida, has experience building boats from scratch and builds electric vehicles as well. I don’t know if he’s ever actually built an electric boat, He may be worth getting in touch with anyway. -- Auf wiedersehen! Michael Hurley ______________________________________________________ "..Um..Something strange happened to me this morning." "Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of Sun God robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?" "..No." "Why am I the only person that has that dream?" -Real Genius _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131227/3aed4cde/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
