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Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Electric Propulsion
truelove39@XXX.XXX
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 16:48:10 EST
Hi Chris,
Interesting - thanks for the info. If Larry Pardy had thought of that he
wouldn't have had to get towed into so many anchorages!
John
cmckesson@XXX.XXX writes:
>
> 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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