peterboat

Exactly, I went up to Saltaire the other year, I have a removable wheelhouse on my widebeam but made it without dropping it. the biggest issue though was not being able to get close to the bank in places when mooring and Joyce isnt a deep draft boat, chines really are needed on the L & L in places

They are, in reality they are range extenders as the electric motor is the only thing attached to the propshaft same as my boat, except I only have solar panels for charging

Norty

A few years ago I had a couple spend an afternoon on my boat, this year Martin bought a widebeam and loves it ex wife has gone! ?

On the broads some of the newer hire boats are hybrids with solar, the gennys are automatically started if the batteries go low, sunny days often the gennys arnt needed

Mine is a big heavy widebeam it uses 3.3 kw cruising or it did on its 60 volt battery bank, it might have changed now I am on 72 volts. I have 36KWHs of battery bank but I also have 4.6KW of solar on the roof, so working things out can be very difficult! If it was a NB I suspect 2KW would push the boat along nicely maybe less? But you would have less solar to recharge and that is key to electric cruising currently. I do noy see the point of making electric by diesel genny except in emergency solar is best for me

Watched a trad NB doing this today coming out of a marina reversing with the roller over in the arc of it if it had hit anything he would have been overboard and under! It was a tight T exit and he had tried to pus around with the bow on the bank then he went into reverse and was on the wrong side of the tiller if you get my gist? Anyway he managed to get it into forward before the rudder struck and hit the bank again as he went forward!

Its not expensive now, most of the costs for my conversion were covered by the sale of the diesel engine and gearbox, ok I am an engineer so I did it myself, but as time goes on I could easily put together kits from forklift trucks if I felt like some extra money in my life, which I dont as I value my time to much

Cant see it happening I am afraid, it's up to the boaters to sort it out like I do

Same here Tony, insects seem to gather later

Thankfully the battery changing thing failed for Renault and more than likely will fail for Nio, modern battery packs have heating and cooling though not really needed on boats and low power cars I suppose