Sunken Treasure

[dLj]

I recently watched a YouTube video of Sailing Magic Carpet and they were sailing up a British Columbia fiord along with another boat that was electric powered. The difference in the diesel powered boat and the electric powered boat was pretty clearly shown.

The power storage needs for an electric boat need to be considered. Where and how are you going to sail? Are you OK with sitting and waiting for wind if your batteries are dead? A lot depends on you, and how you want your boat to run. How do you want to charge those batteries? Lots of things to think about.

Nobody can answer for you how an electric motor will work for you without a huge amount of detailed sailing and systems information.

dj

 

[ggrizzard]

Take a heavy dose of Soma, forget the idea ever crossed your mind,
and RUN like hell the other way, (even if they paid you to take it)!

 

[jssailem]

Here is an interesting perspective about electrical motors on a cruising boat.

And an analytical view by a cruising sailor.

 

[dLj]

Just a note, the second video said he likes having a minimum of 500 nm and prefers 1000nm on his engine. I very much agree with that. I don't measure in nautical miles, I measure in hours. My boat carries fuel for approximately 200 hours of continuous motoring. I can run carefully and push to close to 300 hours of motoring. It's a really nice safety belt...

There are ocean legs where that would be insufficient, but if I were to run those, I would carry Jerry cans to make up the deficit.

Like I said above - you need to define how you wish to sail

dj