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'at' visitor_name: Tom Email: tom'at'coopermarine.net Date: 16/10/2011 Time: 12:10 Comments: wonderful site, inspiration to all budding solar boat thinkers visitor_name: John Peperell, Twickenham. visitor_name: Paul Elkins, Stanwood, Washington, USA Comments: Nice site. I enjoy my little electric 8ft boat alot. For details of my wacky projects visit my blogspot: www.highmileagetrikes.blogspot.comvisitor_name: Dave visitor_name: Sandith visitor_name: Mat from Hampshire visitor_name: Rodney Jordan St.
Albans, West Virginia, US visitor_name: Phillip Rimmer, PTBO
ONTARIO CANADA Comments: visitor_name: Olivier Boegner visitor_name: Tom, Cheshire. visitor_name: Edwin
Mearns, Nowra, NSW Australia visitor_name: bruce soutar -
DURBAN S.A. visitor_name: Elaine. Looe -
Cornwall visitor_name: Edwin Osborn, Oxford, U.K. We have just very successfully converted our 38' narrowboat to 12kW electric drive with a small rapid-recharge storage battery store and on-board 6kW diesel generator plus solar top-up. The boat can be used exactly like a conventional drive narrowboat - infinite range, slightly more continuous power, far more acceleration, but totally noiseless used "pure electric", slight hum when recharging. Any queries welcome. visitor_name: Midcoast Marine Engineering Excellent Site. Presently
designing a diesel/electric hybrid and would welcome any ideas
or comments visitor_name: Timberlake, McLeary, Scotland A very interesting site and well worth the visit. visitor_name: Bruce Dillahunty Thanks for such a great web site and resource... I have tried to keep up with electric boating (see my web site at www.craftacraft.com) but hadn't found your site. I've added a link to you as another resource for us U.S. boaters to follow up on. Thanks again! visitor_name: Matt, Mendocino, California USA Greetings from California, Thank you all for your wonderful and informative website and all your good works. I just thought that some members and guests might be interested in the small electric boats being built at www.bobcatboats.com by Dave Thomson in Louisiana in the US. I just bought one and it is a very well designed hand-built little two-person electric boat, all set up and ready to go. Of course I envy the rivers and canals of my ancestors' home in Britain, but we do at least have a very nice river, great for wildlife and nature photography. Now I am interested in adding flexible thin-film solar sheeting of some kind to the little for and aft decks, either the self-adhesive type or something that I can rivet onto the deck, to help charge the single twelve-volt battery. Any comments or advice by members or guests would be appreciated. Cheers, Matt visitor_name: Adrian Dalziel, Somerset, UK An Impressive site. I have a 24V Minn Kota in the Garage which I must dust down and try out with the Dinghy that is somewhere in the Garden!! Nice to see Tony Rymell fit and well and still enjoying his 'Blood & Custard' Boat. visitor_name: Bill
McManus, Logan Ut USA visitor_name: Ray - Hillcrest, South Australia What a great site! Well laid out, informative, entertaining and enthusiastic. I am fairly advanced in converting a kayak to electric power and would have saved myself a lot of trouble had I found your site earlier. visitor_name: Joe Lewis of Hydrogen Engine Center in Iowa, USA I stumbled across this web site while doing a research project for our company. We manufacture H2 and other fuelled internal combustion engines for the industrial market. We are very interested in building hybrid electric versions for the marine industry. I found lots of useful info here and plan to visit often. visitor_name:
Chris - Reading, UK Jo and Chris live in Reading, UK, (Thames and
Kennet canal) and have decided to investigate buying a narrow
boat to live on. We will power our home and travel by solar,
wind and if necessary, eco-fuel diesel. visitor_name: Richard Mcclellan, Greenville S.C. USA This site will help me with my winter project of converting gasoline to solar for weekend use visitor_name: Ian Wilson, Blackwater Marina, Essex By far the best web site I have seen for along time, Clear precise and informative, the application is in the post. We are designing a 22ft trailer sailer for coastal waters. Electric is the ONLY way to go for auxiliary. your contacts links will prove invaluable. visitor_name: Rich Lisney I had my 1936 riveted canal barge fitted with a Lynch motor about 3 years ago having sold my motor boat to fund the project. I ran dry on funds and the boat just sat there. It has given me a fresh perspective seeing the inspiring boats on your site. I have now just bought a set of 8x 80W solar panels to fit down the top planks (the boat is 72' long) and am itching to get it finished so I can enjoy silent, pollution free cruising. visitor_name: Dave Suttle I operate river tours from Pulteney weirside in Bath in my 1950-built electric passenger launch, 'Viking Warrior'. (see members boats section). I meet all sorts of people from all over the world who are invariably very impressed with electric-powered cruising. The other day I was talking to some Dutch visitors who told me that, in Holland, electric boats are called 'Flwisterboot' which translates into 'whispering boat'. Spot on in my opinion! visitor_name: Nguyen Chi Cong, SaiGon, VietNam Dear EBA Board Management, I am reading EBA site
with great interest. I like very much the page "Solar Power".
May we set-up EBA activities in Viet Nam, where is big number of
river network and rich of the sunshine.
Best regards,
Nguyen Chi Cong visitor_name: Alan
Lewis. Perryville, MD, USA visitor_name: Alex. Great site, lots of friendly faces and characters, looking forward to joining, Great pictures too. Really pleased to have found this site and organisation, great British spirit - thanks. visitor_name: Duncan from Townsville, North Queensland, Australia Hello EBA, I am an electrical engineer in Australia and I have a keen interest in boating, so what better way to combine the two. Fossil fuels becoming outrageously overpriced and the love of doing some ground breaking trials. I am keen to learn all I can from this website and keen to give back experiences from my trials. This is just the place to begin and just the place to be an old hand. I look forward to reading and sending info as it comes to hand. visitor_name: Fred Alexander, Franklin, North Carolina, USA Comments Your site is delightful and informative. Though I live in the Southern Appalachians in USA, I look forward to joining as soon as the long-deferred house painting is complete. I often have a 4 mile run in the Little Tennessee River to myself in a 1971 aluminium jon boat powered by a Minn Kota 55T. After some paddling, there's a spare battery and my Dad's 8 lb thrust MK and an old car battery come along as well. This stretch is impounded by a hydroelectric dam. Using a friend's GPS, I found that I average 4 mph, but at the confluence of the Little T and Cullasaja, once hit a blistering 6.3 mph! Today I tried to go upriver from the launch site on the Little T using my 55 and a borrowed 50 lb thrust motors. It was just too much. But I enjoyed watching a beaver dive, 3 locally based Canadian geese apparently on a training flight, talking to friends who walked along a parallel greenway, and, at 3/4 power, running even with a duck also heading upstream. As never before, I was very impressed by the technical achievements reflected in the duck's speed and endurance. I think I felt envy, too! Few outdoor activities have brought me more sheer joy in recent years that my trips down the river in this craft so silent that the tinkle of water under the aluminium hull doesn’t drown out the calls of bullfrogs. Thanks for the opportunity to share these pent up thoughts. visitor_name: Nigel Tomkins, Shepperton. UK Comments Type your guestbook entry her reat site. Now back on the river (Thames, at Shepperton), I am looking to purchase a second-hand Frolic 21 with canopies etc. Any help, guidance would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Nigel Tomkins visitor_name: Joe Schmitt, Scotland Comments Just the kind of web-site I was looking for. Want to change from diesel inboard on 8.3m 8t sailing yacht to electric propulsion. Would be grateful for any help to get started. visitor_name: Ronnie - Suffolk. UK Comments Wonderful site with terrific information available to electric boat builders and interested parties. visitor_name: Malcolm Moss, Surrey. UK Comments Thanks Nick for a wonderful website. It is so impressive I wonder if anyone knows of any awards that it could be entered for ? visitor_name: Gary from near London, Ontario, Canada Comments Been looking at building an "E" boat for some time and found your site while searching for info. I live in Canada and so far have not found an organization related to "E" boats, so I guess I will be on my own. Thank you for putting your site up, it is a help. visitor_name: Vince Murray Comments excellent info, we are considering building a stainless steel catamaran electric and would appreciate any links to that end Vince visitor_name:
Paul Smith, Louth, Lincs, England Comments interesting site, building a 16ft 1930,s style runabout at moment -- looking for ideas for electric propulsion any good tips anyone-- will need to use prop shaft and stern tube type assembly visitor_name: Tom Fullam,
Ellsworth ME USA Comments great site would love your magazine in the USA. visitor_name:
P. Tarvainen, Helsinki, Finland. Comments Nice craft you respected folks have, unlike my part-rotten GRP sailboat, electric since last august with 24V motor system. Can't wait for the next season to get all fixed and secured - and final cabling installed, 3rd layout going. Have to get motor current readout, temp, ventilation too. Many details to look after but no more petrol, oil spills, noise and stink! in my sailing power. I can still hear my propulsion going but people in the next boat or onshore can't. Well the new diesels don't make much noise either but, you know the tiny difference? visitor_name:
Norman K. Stoller OBE DL, Cumbria. U.K. The Orchard Belle (Frolic 31) situated on Lake Windermere Cumbria (U.K.) If you have an electric craft on this lake and would like to meet up for a drink in the season ahead kindly contact me. Electric craft owners visiting Windermere and would like to stay at (my) Lindeth Howe Hotel should also contact me and hopefully receive an even warmer welcome. visitor_name: Philip Blomfield East Sussex. UK visitor_name: STEVE . P. KINGSVILLE ON. CA.
USA Comments I've have had an electric boat for over 5 years now. I sail on Lake Erie in Canada. It's been an adventure of trial and error, with the result that I can tell you with confidence what not to do , having done it myself. My boat is a 20 ft. steel life boat that was once on the now scrapped American Oil tanker Amaco Wisconsin . My boat was made by the C.M. Lane Lifeboat Co. Brooklyn N.Y. April 1930 . It will celebrate its 75th next year. I started out with 2 36lb trolling motors and 2 deep cycle 12 volt batteries. My first error was in permanently securing the motors to the hull. Trolling motors can't be left in the water that long or the seals leak ,and you're left with a big lump of rust. My second mistake was seriously underestimating the amount of thrust needed. 72 lbs was fatoo low. 150-200lb was needed. I should have used 24 volt from the start. Running out of charge once will teach you a very important lesson YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY SPARE BATTERIES ON BOARD . On the whole its been great fun. With a Victrola playing as we cruise out to the lake, the power boaters and yacht owners all stop and wave and wonder, "What's wrong with that boy?" They just don't understand. visitor_name: Bruno Franchi - Milan - Italy Comments I visited the Web Site and I found it very interesting and easy to navigate. I write an email with my last news about new electric outboard and inboard engines with photos and technical data. visitor_name: Ray Castell, Oxfordshire. UK Comments I'm delighted to find this website. I shall soon be embarking on the build of a Selway Fisher designed classic motorboat and would love to power it electrically. I'm hopeful that the Association will be a great source of help with this. visitor_name: Matt Strange
- Caversham, Berkshire. Comments Nick & Co, I haven't been on the EBA site for a while, but I am mightily impressed by how it has developed - especially the wealth of superb photographs (I'll have to add my little number to your members gallery)! As a member, there is a lot to be very proud of here and as a Thames boater, the up to date Slipway section is especially welcome - something that is too often overlooked elsewhere. Best wishes. visitor_name: Paul Chapman, Duisburg Germany Comments Designing an electric narrow-boat and shall apply for membership. Looks like there is a lot of experience and information here. visitor_name: Peter Gafney
- Finchampstead, Berkshire. Comments A very interesting website. I shall follow it with interest. One day I hope to have a small electric boat. Finance & location permitting |
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