SW - very cool. A ship sized Minn-kota trolling motor!
The Sail Drive doesn't swivel though - flow over the rudder is how I steer under power or sail.
And it goes without saying that this conversion project will be typical Darin style: ie. making best use of available resources...
I still have a pile of left over parts from project ForkenSwift:
- 2 motors to choose from,
- a sizeable collection of golfcart batteries,
- contactors,
- 2 spare controllers (I may just do a contactor controller),
- and a selection of battery chargers.
As usual, the hardest part will be coming up with a coupler to connect the motor to the input shaft of the transmission (lower unit).