The first guide to building/buying an electric boat. Covers everything needed: designs, types of construction, motors, batteries, chargers, converting an existing boat.
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"Ecologically responsible' boating strikes the waterways; theory, practice, suppliers; everything you need to know-and then some." -- WoodenBoat
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
To the point and an enjoyable read/ referance,
By A Customer
This review is from: Electric Boats: The Handbook of Clean, Quiet Boating (Paperback)
Doug shows us how we can get involved with electric boating for about $500 and 60 hours investment! This is the third book about electric boating I have read, and I expect it will be the last. Doug covers it all and leaves the reader with enough flexability to suit their needs.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
An electrical engineering disaster.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Electric Boats: The Handbook of Clean, Quiet Boating (Paperback)
This book is an excellent primer on the joys of low impact boating but tends toward science fiction when discussing the physics of electric motors and the batteries that power them. Table 3-1, for example, is a good example of power calculations gone seriously wrong, and serves more to disinform and confuse the reader than explain the true relationships between motor voltages, current draw and thrust. The author's discussion of the calculations in the tables exposes his lack of fundamental understanding even further. Enjoy the book for the nice pictures and descriptions of boats suitable for electric power, but go elsewhere if you wish to understand how the whole system works.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
the best book on electric boats,
By on the middlefork in wa (North Bend, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Electric Boats: The Handbook of Clean, Quiet Boating (Paperback)
This is a great introduction to the technical and aesthetic aspects of choosing / outfitting / building a quiet, clean boat. I've used the information to put together two electric boats, and have been delighted with the head start on information in one place on battery capacity, battery care, motors, power consumption, propeller and hull performance, etc... As an experienced electrical engineer, I have found some technical weakesses and typos, but overall, this is a great pioneering book that I hope has some worthy successors.
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