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Subject: [world-cruising] Electric Propulsion
cmckesson@XXX.XXX
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 16:19:12 EST
Somebody asked...
We have a Columbia 36 fitted with an electric propulsion motor. The motor
is a 36 VDC golf cart motor. At top throttle it will push the boat at
about 4.5 knots...but we never run it that high. We normally motor at
about 2.5 - 3 knots. We have about 10 miles of cruising range under power
on a bank of golf cart batteries. We can extend that to something greater
than 50 miles by running our Honda genset at the same time.
We have been underway with this system for a bit over two years now,
having started in Puget Sound and sailing the US west coast as far as San
Diego, where we are now.
We is three of us: Me, Debbie (wife of 24 years) and Heather (15 yo
daughter.)
Chris McKesson
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