Well, sure---are you following Elon Musk, SpaceX and the fact that they have now crashed S/N8, 9, 10 and 11 Starships?? Each of them could have killed dozens or hundreds had it veered off course and couldn’t be brought back.? And you’re worried about my little electric boat?? No comparison.

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Eric had the right question---one you still haven’t answered: Why, again, are you here?

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The operative words are "100 years ago". Back then the Wright Bros. flew without "FAA approval" and Tesla overloaded and shut down Colorado Springs power grid with his experiments in wireless power......Would that "fly" today?

I suspect similar sentiments were expressed 100 years ago about internal combustion engines in small boats?? And what they had then was certainly not reliable by modern standards? ? I vote to keep working on this.? Electrics will always be un-tested until someone tests them.? Might as well be some of us?? I like to think I am doing a bit better than "bodging" something together.? So far it has been a fascinating endeavor.? I hope to be on the water in a month or so.

Diesel boat engines.? Proven yet vulnerable:



Dan Pfeiffer

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On 2021-05-01 8:45 pm, pv Beveren wrote:

I never said "bound to fail"....the odds are higher the cheaper the parts.....or more innovative and relatively not as field tested system. Reality my friend. Diesel is well proven, bodging together an untested electrical drive? sketchy at best....unless well tested. Aircraft have well defined Hours of Operation maintenance schedules, good parts are yanked out and replaced, well running engines rebuilt....and still planes fail.

On 01/05/2021 7:12 p.m., Eric via groups.io wrote:

"?I have zero electronic components in my boat except portable waterproof radio, plotter and cellphone..."

pv Beveren,

Apparently, you do not have an electric boat, and your 5 posts here since your first post last December have basically suggested that diesel solutions are better, and that implementing an electric drive in an ocean going vessel without spending money like a military or aviation project is bound to fail. ?If you think that the electric boat conversions that are the main topic of this group are a bad idea, I have to assume that you don't want one. ?If you don't own one and you don't want one, why are you here?

Regards,
Eric