[Rhodes22-list] Electric Outboards

[peter klappert]

A good source on Electric Outboards is plugboats.com. Based on their guide
to "Outboards more than 5kW," I've (about) decided to replace my Mercury
9.9 Bigfoot with the Elco 9.9 electric. I may be well offbase and
misinformed, but based on my crude calculations an appropriate, sealed
Lithium battery could be located well forward in the cockpit, in place of a
6-gallon gas tank.

An aside: I just read about interesting but under-powered options in the
3/22 SAIL magazine. The TEMO-450 Electric Outboard Wand is basically an
electric sculling oar that claims to "move a boat up to 1,100 lbs."
Obviously that would be ok for an RIB or a dinghy, not for us. But the
convenience & ease of use (as described) makes me fantasize about a small
Marshall Cat.

The other is a REMIGOONE Electric Outboard from Slovenia, "comparable to a
3 hp gas engine," which weights 27 lbs & has an adjustable mount.  My point
is just that electric outboards are coming at us fast, so to speak.
Europeans seem to be way ahead of us, both in innovative electric outboards
and electric power boats like the foiling Candela C8.


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