Modern canal boats often have a large number of electric devices onboard requiring sophisticated low voltage 12 volt or 24 volt and mains voltage systems making use of intelligent electrical management systems to control load and.

Narrowboat electric motor. Our electric motor is ideally suited to narrow boats canal barges house and hire boats sailing boats racing yachts and more. See below a Hybrid Parallel Drive application. If you are operating in adverse conditions say on a fast flowing stretch of a river then you will need the full power of the main engine.

Once depleted and the diesel engine is engaged to propel the vessel the Electric MotorGenerator will automatically switch to electrical generation. This means you could take any narrowboat of choice from your favourite builder and add the electric motor as an after market option. What makes her unusual.

5 blades michigan right 29. Posted September 11 2014 edited I dont know if this helps at all but I designed and built a diesel electric powered narrowboat drive system in the late 70s. The motor is the latest model from the Dutch specialists Bellmarine.

Our inaugural DIM is from Jonathan Evans of Stourport on Severn in England about his narrowboat Nu Era. The Bluefin Marine Drive system from LMC is easy to install and is suitable for a wide range of vessels such as hire boats cruiser boats fishing boats and much more. During mid to low power cruising conditions 23rd maximum hull speed the electric MotorGenerator can be used to electrically motor the vessel using the energy stored within the battery bank.

Windermere Lake Cruises Avon Boating Stony Brook University and Covey Island Boatworks to name just a few. 2 We are a gasless boat so dont use bottles of LPG for cooking as is usual instead we have an electric oven an electric induction hob use an electric kettle and an electric. The Marlin Drive Systems from LMC are suitable for a whole range of vessels.

The image of electric cars today is now faraway from the once ubiquitous milk float. The boat was 72 and was powered by two 75Hp induction motors driving a continuously variable hydraulic gearbox from a conveyor belt. The systems are technically advanced but.