This is one of those perfect use cases for electric power. I suspect that in a remarkably short amount of time, all river/lake/inshore leisure and work boats will be fully electric. It makes perfect sense. It will take on very quickly
Listened to your interview on rnz with Kathryn Ryan. Excellent job Gavin, eloquently countering key points that the neigh sayers mindlessly blurt out in incomprehensible befuddledisms. [That, made up(?) word sounds like something Gavin would use]. 🤣😂😅
I don't want to just comment a generic "fantastic, well done Gavin" comment. I'd prefer to comment something clever and witty. But alas I am neither... idea's anyone???
Great video. Hilarious that we all paid for 40% of it but there you go. A perfect use case for an electric boat. Once you need to go further, faster it all falls apart so I’ll be buying diesel for mine for awhile yet.
We do lots of electric boats which go far or fast. We supply hybrid systems too, so you can retrofit a hybrid system to your existing diesel engine. After that you'll rarely start the diesel but it's still there for the occasional long passage and the hybrid unit will rapidly charge your batteries at the same time as your old diesel is propelling the boat. - Chris from electric boat co nz
These would be ideal in Australia on the Murray River. Mooring is also a costly item if you own but hiring is ideal. Do they have electric boats that have a trailer system?
Both of the boats in the video are trailer launched although we keep them moored in the water most of the time for convenience. We have a wide range of trailer launched electric boats available and can have them shipped direct to Australia from the boatbuilder in Europe, or we can supply an electric inboard or outboard for an existing trailer launched boat.
IMHO it's not a good idea to convert a Seagull, the propeller and drivetrain is very inefficient. It would certainly be cheaper and easier just to buy a purpose built electric outboard with an efficient direct drive motor at the bottom of the leg and an optimal propeller shape, it will last a lot longer and get much more range out of your battery. - Chris from the electric boat co.
@@electric-boat Hi Chris, I agree, but where's the fun in that 😊 The Seagull is not in running order, I have a 48V DC motor, and a stack of recycled lithium cells, all up I have spent about $250 on parts. I might need another $50 of waterproofing and a battery case, but I can't see anything close to that price range other than little trolling motors.
@@djotter Well if you're doing it for fun and you have the bits then why not! I would still at least change the propeller, people actually did know how to make efficient propellers in the 1950s but Seagull avoided those and tried quite hard to make their designs as rudimentary and agricultural as possible, it was their whole design ethos!
The Frolic 21 has a souped up 2.5kw Lynch motor so it will do over 6 knots, and it can still do about 6 knots towing two other boats - the speed of a displacement boat is limited by the length of the waterline not by the amount of power it has. With the limiter switched on then we restrict it to 3-4 knots so it can't do more than the 5 knot speed limit even with the wind behind. The Ruban Bleu Scoop has a permanently enabled limiter so it is always restricted to 3-4 knots. If you could switch off the limiter then the shorter waterline would limit the maximum speed to 5.4 knots, the same maximum speed as any other boat of that length.
Hang on, some important figures needed here - where's the PSC? I mean, tourism is all fair enough, but think of the environmentally friendly potato** haulage business that could use these! **Other tubiferous plant-based choices are available, but, y'know, why would anyone bother...?!
