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Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Electric Propulsion
From: Rick Bradshaw (rbradsh2@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 16:32:19 EST
Chris,
How does it work if you need to power through some heavy seas to stay
off a lee shore or take the strain off the anchor(s) in a bad blow,
etc.? Doesn't sound like it would be enough to keep you off the rocks
in an emergency. On the other hand, you don't have to stop at too
many fuel docks either.
Are you on your way down to Mexico and points further South or are
you just cruising the U.S.?
Rick
>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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