July 2014 was the month when the diesel finally died and I decided not to revive it anymore. That is when the decision was finalized to switch over to an electric system. The old 3 cylinder Volvo Penta MD-17C was removed in small, easy to manage pieces and hauled off to the scrap yard. Then […]
Converting Manta 38 – Case History
Hi Michael, Sunny Ray and her crew are doing great. We have almost 6000 miles on our GPS odometer and still perfect performance of the Electric Yacht motors! Top speed under power is 7.5 knots in our 38ft Manta Catamaran with two blade Flex O Fold 15×10 props on shaft drives. The previous fixed 3 […]
Converting Friendship Sloop 35 – Case History
“Sarah Mead” doesn’t burn a drop of fuel.” In 2012, Captains Nate and Randy obtained a Maine DEP grant to repower “Sarah Mead” with a quiet, clean and powerful electric propulsion system. She is the first commercial vessel in Maine, and possibly New England, to go “Zero Emissions.” After years of struggling with an underpowered, […]
C&C 35 write up – Case History
Monday, May 12, 2014 Salome is a 1974 C&C 35 Mk II. C&C was a Canadian company that lead the racer-cruiser market during the 1970s. Its actually an identical sister-ship to Initram, a boat that underwent a similar re-power four years ago (http://sunchallenge.blogspot.com). We bought it in 2006 with its functioning, but unreliable Atomic 4. […]
Converting Dickerson 36 – Case History
I first starting thinking about sailboat electric propulsion long before I owned my first sailboat, around the time I was first learning to sail. It seemed to me at the time, and still does today, that the sailboat is the perfect vehicle for electric propulsion. That is, if you consider the sails to be the […]