Meet the bathtub on electric drive

All the link does is being me back here☹

Yes it worked😀😁.

The phantom boat does exist and works


Well done. Still a bit of work to do, I see.

I'm impressed it will be cheap to run and you can sneak up on fisherman.

Excellent!

Nice vivid orange superstructure - I like it!

Ditch the abundance of dangles at the pointy and blunt ends though, they are never where you need them anyway!

She looks a bit bum out of the water minus the engine and hydraulic drive, a dirty great battery bank would no doubt solve that though!

very nice...thats a lovely hobby/man cave....

I know from experience of my (much smaller) electric yogurt pot that cruising is 100% more pleasant when it is done in almost complete silence, just a vague thrumming sound from the prop.

If only there was some way of recovering energy from the wake of the faster gin places as they storm past on the Thames, all involved in the regular race to see who can get to the next lock first. The enforced slow and graceful pace of my electric boat makes me very disdainful of anything that makes a loud noise and kicks up a wake and whose occupants are oblivious to the natural wonders of the river. What a pity that the graceful lines of Edwardian river boats have been replaced by 2 storey white boxes with a pointy end at the front (which all derive from fast sea boats).

3 mph is achieved in total silence it makes me smile every time we take it for a run out. It can do 6 mph but that nearly trebles the power needed at at 3 mph so my world will be seen at the slower much more relaxed pace. The orange will be going as well for a light blue and dark blue [solar panels]

Good work Peter, look forward to seeing it in a more fineshed state at sometime. What sort of size battery bank are you using/planing to use? And roughly how much running time do you think this will give. I'm aware this will be questimations but I bet you've done some sums.