[Rhodes22-list] Electric Motor

[David Keyes]

Charles, if you ever want to come down to Austin on a weekend, we can sail together on my R22 (badly in need of maintenance, however)—and after I get a motor to get out of my boat slip.
David

> On Jun 5, 2020, at 1:13 PM, Charles Nieman <blue66corvette at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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>>>