Jimbo435

OK, so it's been awhile, we changed our plans to purchase immediately, after much advice here and elsewhere. We hired a boat for a week back in May, and shortened our trip and skipped Crick. I put together a video of our tiny little trip near Worcester. We hired an electric drive boat and we loved loved it. Excuse the benal content in the beginning on the canals, many friends and family we talked to didn't know what a UK canal was. 30 minutes long, sorry. Couldn't decide which streach of beautiful canal or set of signets or ducklings to cut out.

She was listed as a narrowboat. I would assume 6'10". 62 feet long. Here's the advert from 2019: https://www.aqueductmarina.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Specification-Template-2019-2-24.pdf

Came across this boat, the Emaa Louise Too on a Youtube video. The style is very intriguing to me. I like the rear cabin behind the wheelhouse. What would be the downsides of moving this boat around the network?

Actually, we call it an adjustable bed. Similar to what is in an hospital. It allows one to sleep with head or feet or both elevated. A bed that folds away against a wall or into a cabinet is what we call a murphy bed. I don't think I need the bed to fold away completely, jsut enough to get past easily.

Yeah, I guess I underestimated how many boaters stay in marinas. Didn't I read that about 10% of all boats were CCs? That would be about 3000, no? So maybe your 5k chargers is about right. I guess where they are would also be important. I wonder if an unused freight container, with batteries and solar would be cost effective to drop just off the towpath.

Thank you, I hadn't though of several of those things. But it still begs the question. Which system is more costly: 1) High voltage DC charging that can fill a boat in less than an hour, enabling the need for fewer chargers, but requiring more costly electronics on each boat. 2) Enough places to moor overnight each with mains power so every electric boat has a place to moor and charge, mostly with existing electronics on each boat. Eventually, this would be needed for every boat. We can't do the math without making some assumptions on size of battery, typical boaters daily needs, summer vs winter, etc. I'm thinking that a middle of the road solution is needed between DC fast charging and 30A mains charging. I don't think it is practical to put 20,000-30,000 mains hookups on the canals/marinas.

Simple. If we need to stay overnight or 4-6 hours to charge, one charge point = one boat. But at 20-30 minutes a pop, we can charge dozens of boats with one charge point.

First step as I see it is some companies need to start engineering an onboard charger for narrowboats. Many don't realize this, but EV charger circuitry is onboard the car. The connection (EVSA) is just a smart wall plug so as not to electrocute the user/over charge the car. So until electric boats have chargers installed, no fast charging can be done. I don't think slow (230V), what we in California call Level 2 chargers, are useful for narrowboats except maybe in marinas because it takes hours to top off. Once there are solutions for chargers on boats, then fast (Level 3 100's of volts DC) chargers can be positioned where boaters now get diesel. Then boats can tie up, plug in, and go from 20-80% in about 15-20 minutes. Faster with the latest technology. Someone (CRT) needs to get ahead of these standards so we don't end up with 2-3 standards like we have with EVs.

We like (very much) an adjustable bed, such as this. Whether we get two singles and then have them open like a book, or use a double and weld it to a frame that is hinged one side I don't know. Yep, and most likely what I end up with. But hopefully we can spec it out and get a quote to find out how much cheaper

I had just started thinking about how I would do it, so this is very basic, but something like this. I am next working on the shape of the supports so that they are more out of the way when up, so that it is easier to get on the boat. It also needs to be further forward when up.

Found this, not sure it helps. YMMV https://www.petguide.com/health/dog/is-ice-water-really-dangerous-for-dogs/