[Public-List] Electric Drive

[Wes Gardner via Public-List]

Hey All,

For those considering heating, cooking and motive power, seems to me the
answer comes down to diesel as it can serve all of these in relative safety
and obtainability world-wide. Oh wait, do they make a diesel-fired oven?  I
know you can get a cook-top...

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jonathan Bresler via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Richard,
>
> Could you tell us about the Honda generator that you have installed ?
> Must admit that I have no plans to make the conversion from diesel to
> electric at this time.
> The Yanmar 2GM20F installed in #262 purrs along with very, very few hours
> on the clock.
>
> Still I am interested in learning more.  Have searched your blog for
> information on the generator
> but have not found any....perhaps I missed.  Ole eyes aint what they used
> to be.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Richard Mair via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>
> > We have an electric drive on 609 Into The Blue. We absolutely love it. We
> > have the Electric Yacht 100ibl.
> > This is actually smaller than the recommended system for our displacement
> > but it works great. On the advice of the electric forum we went to a 3
> > blade prop.
> > Running a 3 blade 13 by 12 we can do 3.3 knots with only 16 amp draw at
> 48
> > volt system. 200 amp hours gives us 5 hours run to 50% discharge. The
> > current draw goes up against current. Now that we are day sailing it is
> > really nice to be able to start and end trips with no noise and
> vibration.
> > The drawback is range if you are in a hurry but we extended that with a
> > Honda generator when coming up the St.Lawrence in 2013.
> > Willing to answer any questions you may have. Would never go back to a
> > diesel.
> > On Jul 6, 2015 10:19 AM, "Andrew Johns via Public-List" <
> > public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > Has anyone on the list converted an A30 to electric drive? I'm liking
> the
> > > idea of getting the noisy diesel out of the boat.
> > >
> > > What sort of experiences have people had?
> > >
> > >
> > > - Andrew
> > >
> > > 1965 A30 #104 "Ecola"
> > > Lake Champlain , VT
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