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An Electric Outboard Motor

If you liked the sun-powered cruiser featured on the current cover of WoodenBoat (July/August), you'll also like this site.  It shows how a fellow took an old 10-hp Johnson outboard motor, ditched the gasoline powerhead, and added an Etek constant-magnet motor--the same type used in the cruiser on our cover. He hung the modified unit on the transom of a Phil Bolger-designed Diablo, and, judging from the photo,  the little boat scoots along--silently and cleanly, we can assume, though it's hard to judge those qualities from a photo.

Posted by Matthew Murphy on July 13, 2005 at 03:14 PM in Innovations | Permalink | Comments (1)