Original Watermota gearbox and prop shaft
Original Watermota gearbox and prop shaft
Watermota engine from aft
Watermota engine from aft
Watermota engine from cabin
Watermota engine from cabin
Engine out
Motor temporarily in position
Motor temporarily in position
Motor temporarily in position
Motor with Mk 1 temporary shaft extension
New instruments - motor and solar monitors
New throttle, keyswitch and monitor
Controller temporarily in position
Motor temporarily in position
Thoosa throttle replacing throttle/gear levers
Shelf for batteries
First two batteries under cockpit sole
Solar charge controller
Motor, controller, circuit breakers
Solar panels temporarily mounted on mainsheet slide.
Mk II temporary shaft extension
Mk II motor mounts, replacing Mk 1 wooden ones
Careening Alastor in Horton Bay to swap propeller shafts.
The propeller puller
Thoosa motor with new coupling flanges
Thoosa motor with indents filed in shaft
Careening again to fit new propeller shaft
Portside solar panel track
Solar panel track with temporary spar.
Solar power cable in mast, with connectors for two strings.
Final arrangement of four batteries in parallel, 120Ah at 50V.
Setting up to align the motor.
Cleaning old oil from the bilges with slices of plastic foam
Panels mounted on auxiliary track (fullsize
Controller with 2 Anderson connectors
Four batteries
Blocking diodes in the circuit breaker box.
Inside the motor controller - another motor controller
Mk 2 spar with gooseneck
Mk 2 spar made from telescoping boathook
Maiden electric voyage - Princess Margaret Marine Park on Portland Island
Motor on Mk2 mounts, after pressure washing compartment
Solar panel connectors
Glueing new rear mounts.
Mk III motor mounts, aluminium with rubber isolating mounts.
Rubber mounts
Mounts with limiting bolts
The ReLiOn "fuel gauge" showing total battery capacity
Panels on Mk2 spar
(fullsize)
Panels on Mk2 spar, with sail hoisted
(fullsize)
Port and starboard tracks
Complete turbine assembly
Turbine pole with stays
Main turbine pole mount
Port turbine stay
Starboard turbine stay
InSight battery switch and turbine switch
CANBUS USB interface
Panels canted out
Gaff block
Wind turbine mounts
Wind turbine mounts
Wind turbine mounts
Wind turbine
Blocks + tracks
Turbine and battery switch
Battery shelf
