[Rhodes22-list] Electric Motor

[Charles Nieman]

I bought the 3hp this spring; it’s great. Max speed on a flat lake is about 4 mph. I haven’t tried to see what it will do against a strong head wind. But I am very pleased. I store motor in cabin, and carry 8lb battery home to charge between trips. It may not work for everyone, but it is perfect for the small lake in Dallas where I sail. 

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Charles Nieman


> On Jun 5, 2020, at 12:01 PM, Shawn Boles <shawn.sustain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all :
> Torqueedo has a remote control if you don't like the tiller  control. I
> also bought a add-on from them that allows you to charge the battery on the
> Travel models from house battery using a 12 volt plug cable. (About $50).
> They also make a solar charger for the travel models.
> 
> Cheers,
> Shawn
> s/v Sweet Baboo
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 8:50 AM David Keyes <rhodes22dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, I just thought of a problem (about using an electric motor with
>> heavy batteries installed onboard).   My lake (Lake Travis, Austin, Texas)
>> has large fluctuations—up to 80 or 90 feet—in dry weather when the City of
>> Austin and many downstream water users (rice farmers and downstream
>> industries all the way to the Gulf of Mexico) take water out of the lake.
>> Some summers, when the lake gets very low, our marina has to move it’s
>> docks out from their cove and into the deeper parts of the lake—where there
>> is no shore power.  So a motor such as the Torqeedo 2.0 or 4.0 would be
>> inoperative for an entire summer.
>> 
>> This would not be a problem with the small, 3 hp equivalent, Torqeedo C
>> 1103–its relatively light battery can be carried back and forth, charged at
>> home, and snapped back into the engine top, where it looks like part of the
>> engine.
>> 
>> Problems: low power and range, rated for sailboats only up to 1-1/2 tons,
>> and steering and throttle only by its non-removable tiller.  I have Stan’s
>> electric motor lift, which is so close to the boat that I would either have
>> to replace the lift or devise a bracket or pin at the motor top clear of
>> the snap-in battery that sits there.  The bracket or pin would permit
>> attachment to the cross-arm that pivots from the sailboat’s rudder head.
>> Also, this could work only if the motor’s tiller can be rotated to a
>> vertical position so as not to hit the transom.
>> 
>> David Keyes
>> S/V Arrowhead II (if a name were painted on it, which it isn’t)
>> Lake Travis
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Jun 4, 2020, at 3:06 AM, jose <jose.faraldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi David,
>>> 
>>> You're quite right; the remote throttle is significantly wider than the
>>> tiller, so I doubt there would be a good way to mount it there - though I
>>> might lack imagination. In our boat Stan mounted the throttle on the
>>> port-side gunwale (see picture attached), so it is within reach while
>>> handling the tiller.
>>> 
>>> Jose
>>> 
>>> <http://rhodes-22.1065344.n5.nabble.com/file/t665/throttle.jpg>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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