[email protected] wrote:How do you manage the motor's tiller? I saw an ePropulsion video, and it looked like the tiller would not swing up very far, not enough to clear the transom skirt.
As I wrote to you - unfortunately only now - in a PM, this is quite possible. But you need a movable motor mount. In my opinion, this has less to do with the motors than with the special shape of the mirror on the Pocketship with its oblique angle and the curved mirror. This looks very nice, but has disadvantages when it comes to mounting the motor. On my Mercury, the tiller also rested directly on the transom.
With the E-Propulsion it works, even if the tiller is close above the transom. You don't have to use the motor tiller to steer though. The engine runs fine straight ahead while you steer with the tiller of the Pocketship.
Regarding the new epropulsion: Recuperation only works above a certain speed. I have doubts whether the Pocketship fulfills the condition sufficiently and would not get my hopes up.
Regardless, I think an e-motor for a small boat is a great thing. Which one you take is a matter of taste.I can only speak about the Epropulsion, which I use on two boats: the Pocketship and a 6.50-meter (21.3 ft) dinghy cruiser. Tested on one battery, it makes more than an hour's run.For a sufficient speed of just over 7 kilometers per hour (4.5 miles) on a lake, the Pocketship only needs about 300 watts, which can be used for well over four hours. That's at least about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles). I checked Epropulsion's technical specifications in practice, and they are halfway in line with reality.
We did a multi-day hiking trip on a river with the larger dinghy cruiser with a second battery and the solar panel on board, and cruised electrically for up to 8 hours a day without completely draining the batteries. With the fast charger, a battery is charged in the port in a good three hours, with the normal battery over night in a good seven hours.