Minciuna pe care am crezut-o despre navigarea cu un motor electric | ep 249

34 thoughts on “Minciuna pe care am crezut-o despre navigarea cu un motor electric | ep 249”

1. Awesome video. I can’t wait to see the crossing.

2. 30 knot is s gail unpleasant but still only a gail. It don't become a storm before 41 knot.
   And that is heck more unpleasant😃.
   Keep up the good work 👍

3. Great job on the fix!

4. 👍👌❤️🇨🇦

5. Sailing Uma also said to don’t buy a couch but they have family’s that have children so they need seating, so people with children should not listen to that because they need a place for their children to sit. And yes you either have to move fast get ahead of the storm are sit their and wait til the storm is over. Be safe out there.

6. Welcome to boat life… it is NEVER ever simple. You must have heard the age old refrain… "Cruising is fixing your boat in exotic locations." Well, it's "an age old refrain" because it's true. =]
   The thing is… do you enjoy the benefits, the "exotic locations" enough to make the never ending maintenance and repairs worth it to you? That's the rub… is it worth it.
   I know it is for us, I grew up on the bay and have been messing about and working on boats my whole life. But it is often a real shock for those who only know life on land.
   And yea… "weather" is now your god (small "g" but still…) and the weather cares naught for man's "schedules", and never has. Again, welcome to boat life. =

   So, Good on ya! Keep at it, and keep your eyes on the prize… A different life than the "norm", a life lived for adventure. Ya'll know about that after all those years spent "cruising" on land. =]
   CJ&JD =/|)=

7. Great episode! Stay safe Spoondrifter crew! Keep rolling along!! 👍👍

8. Safe travels withmany adventures.

9. Weed blocked your generator strainer ….same weed would block a Diesel engine up…. moving your intake deeper and introducing a closed Keel cooling type loop would be the only way round the blockages.. …🤔 If you could hang a large enough coiled copper pipe in the water and loose enough heat by transfer to the sea water that might get you through…
   But the Dutch tend to build coolers into their steel boat keels ..or run a pipe along the side of the keel.🇬🇧😉 .
   The other way is to run a fan and radiator system like on a car ….and try loosing the excess heat to the air.

10. Everybody wants to tell you how you should do things…In my humble opinion, you are doing pretty well. It’s your boat..you do you! Electric motor and all. Videos are great by the way.

11. Electric is stupid on a sailboat.
    A tiny outboard would move the boat faster, be cheaper and easy to swap and fix.
    The only downside is the noise, but at least you are getting somewhere.

12. We are also an electric boat, presently anchored in Spanish Wells, preparing for an Atlantic crossing, actually using mostly sails except for the last mile, entering the harbor. It is a mind-set that has served us well, wishing you all the best.

13. So, what's your point?

14. Really glad to see you guys out and having fun! I have an anchor question…if you were us and have a 35lb CQR w/40' chain for normal anchoring but want to replace our other anchor for a bigger more serious one for high winds, what do we want to buy? Were a little lighter than you guys but still want something a little overkill. Thx in advance

15. I run, and maintain two diesel engines for propulsion on my cat. They require more maintenance than electric, and they make the boat smell of diesel, however, like you said when you need to get somewhere, or just need to get out of a bad situation I believe they are the best option. In most cases electric should be sufficient, but there may come a time when constant power will be required to avoid being driven by current or weather to an unfavorable location. Stay safe out there.

16. Very funny tod getting into the boat 🚤 😂🎉❤

17. "do I need to repeat myself?"

    Dude you need to talk to your wife with more respect 🤷‍♂️

18. I want one! Can't wait for next week!

19. I use an 8" drywall puddy spreader to shave the bottom to not rub the paint off. Any place you find the clear thin coat of slime, work around it because it is a natural growth defense like on a fish.
    Put a slotted cover over the intake hole to keep the grass and fish out.
    Have FUN!

20. Lie is. A little bit strong. You guys are new at this. I agree, an electric motor adds more complication to planning but if you stick with it you will agree with Uma in a year or so. Keep it up. Thank you for the video.

21. So, the Northern East Coast port you are staying at is … Panama? I have been through the canal a few times. When I was there, they were using American dollars, but calling them Balboas. The change was very similar to American money as well, but had different faces.

22. Safe travels to the Bahamas, and have a Great Time there. I maybe somewhere around there next year, god willing. Best Wishes. Bob in Wales. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⛵️🌟🌟🌟

23. Title says …Sailing with an electric motor… and not one second in the entire video did ye lot mention anything about electric motor 🙄 such let down. Bait-click, honesty no need for that, just be honest. Once bitten twice shy so no more 4 me, I'm done. 👎🏿

24. Big Strainers are essential to any of your water cooled motors! And yes your water flow is impeded for sure!

25. Instead of a scotch bright pad. Try taking a piece of old carpet and invert it inside out so you have the carpet bottom on the outside, makes a great mitt just slightly bigger than your hand. Works best for me when I leave the finger end open, by just sewing the two nice sides of the carpet together, cause the carpet end works as a soft scrapper for a while till, the carpet gets soft.

26. Well done guys. I think you have got it. Girls doing good and starting to enjoy the activities. Confidence growing. water getting more interesting. I think you have a future.

27. I love that you are calling this out. Even in this thread I see the preening presumed superiority of people who see this is more than just a method of propulsion. I remember when Sailing Uma was doing like their 3rd motor/system refit, I innocently asked about how much distance they could go on motor between the generation capabilities and the batteries. I mentioned that there are many circumstances when one has to get somewhere when doing long range cruising, such as illness, weather, injury/illness, schedules – a guest has to get a flight – etc. I got a reply claiming they were real sailors and I was not. Lol. It was so unexpectedly obnoxious and arrogant, I was surprised. I was literally just trying to understand the range in a worst case. I realized there is something more going on with such folks. It totally ruined their channel, which tbh had always seemed just a bit too 'precious' to me but I ignored that. But at that point, I realized how arrogant and political they actually were. I wonder if they ever looked at how the lithium and cobalt for their batteries were mined? How about those solar panels?

28. It's not a lie @sailinguma is never in a hurry they plan their trips different or maybe even better than you guys 🤷🏾‍♀️

29. Running a generator to generate electricity for an electric motor instead of having a diesel engine makes no sense.

30. On my Manafold, I have the Fresh water pressure hooked up too it, thus at anytime I can backwash the salt water intake , so that too also lay up my engine every time on fresh water, also have another line too the bilge so that you can use your generator too pump out the bilge, I also do not have a generator just my 28 hp diesel Volvo, by the way it has a hand crank, which I have used. When all my batteries were dead, in a morning learned that a hurricane was coming, in my 7200 nm of travel up and down the North East Coast in 12 years of sailing my Beneteau Oceanis 350 1989 , None of the Electronics Available back when I got Starlight, so in 1995, installed an 8D and 4D , being a pilot , I knew how to Dead Reckoning, and also a sextant, which you need, I also used Paper charts, so, Yes, understand the new navigation systems but have also seen the devastation of a Lighting Strike on my friends SeaRay. My Fuel tank is only 21 gallons and in the 20 years have only used 150 gallons and only 760 hours. Mainly generator with a police alternator I installed with 110 gallons of water and an engine coolant powered water heater, which turned out to be our main reason we could only last 4 days at a time on the hook. Way too expensive for a watermaker, we only sailed her in the summer, she was our summer home, took my sons from boys too men, I am doing a refit on her now. However, in my years of sailing, I can tell you at anchor with Nor Easter’s, even though I did not drag, I still started my Engine and ran it for 6 hours straight at 1725, she likes that RPM at Anchor through the height of the storm creating hot water, but more having her running if I needed her, she only burned .5 a Gallon per hour at that RPM and 14 hp load from the over sized 125amp alternator. Often on the great Gunk holes we would love too anchor in there was sea grass that would clog up the intake having the fresh water back wash was a life savor, also laying up the heat exchanger with fresh water every time I used the engine left the heat exchanger with no Growth and, the Exhaust elbow not all rusted up. Get a Crash pump, get a DC powered Crash pump. Anything can put a hole in your Boat, in the Ocean that you can hit. Have a good water proof tarp. You can put it underside of the boat again too limit the water coming in. More fenders and big ones, at anchoring many people drag during storms the can hit you etc. More spring lines, save your running rigging. More blocks, spares , chandeliers are few and expensive in the Caribbean, the boat is constantly breaking something. Get a 5 min Spare air , comes with a tank and regulator all in one. Leave it with your easy too grab, that and a good bar knife Marine issue, nets , pots other things can grab a hold of your boat make very dangerous times, if you cannot quickly cut them away, you will not be able too hold your breath. God Bless, Fair winds.

31. When you were thinking of becoming nomadic (RV or Boat life), did you make a plan on how you can make a living, a timeline, your future plans for possibly transitioning back to a traditional life, etc? I thought this life was a non starter with my wife until yesterday, when I made a crack about how moving aboard would solve a problem she was dealing with, and she said, "I have never seen a plan from you on how to do "those things"."

32. For those who don't think an electric motor is not a good idea because of the range: Get a diesel genset
    
    Advantages,
    
    * You can use it for the hotel load
    
    * This is the best: You will save about 40% in fuel cost because there's – compared to an inboard diesel – no longer a mismatch between torque and RPM.
    
    * You can, of cource recharge the batteries.
    
    * You would probably want to get 2 gensets, for weight balance, and if one fails you have the other, and if both fails you can use one of them to be donor of spare parts for the other.

    Cons,
    Initially more expensive setup, but you can DIY the electric motor by using a rim motor used for EVs: Rim motors has a very low RPM (direct drive wheel), and very high torque. I had seen 700 Nm for a 15 KW rim motor. A rim motor is also very silent compared to the high RPM motors.

33. You need a motor to go as fast the boat can go.always overpower.

34. Best remove your outboard off your dingy, for the trip.

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