I checked out the link to the other electric kayak stuff, but not much useful there, actually. It's all toy-scale stuff, the cordless drill hobby...
Haven't any more pictures, but easy enough to describe if you saw the first one. Haven't decided if the complexity and energy losses are worth it...
Also, Irie: I've gone longtail so far, and now thinking about going to a chaindrive to toss the rotation up and over the rear of the hull while...
More fun... So I went and retrieved my prop a week after losing it. Was much more difficult than anticipated. Dark murky bottom, decaying leaves,...
Holy SxxT! And I thought -MY- little toy was cool! Is that a tach sensor on that coupling? Good for tuning the system, all I got is seat of the...
Why flintknapping a prop? Two words, money and fun. Got little of the first, having much of the latter. Long story short last weekend I made a 7...
Thanks for the useful tips, Par. I ended up making another prop and shaft with -vastly- improved performance, I'll pop back in here when time...
2 kw frequently, not necessarily continuously. It's not as if I put it at that output and then kept it there for exactly one hour, I was ramping...
Well, I just scrounged some lovely 3/4 inch aluminum rod stock and some steel couplings to bolt the lengths together to make a nice rigid and...
Skyak: Re: Stirring paint: Worked, didn't it? That prop now has about 3 miles on it. Maybe 4. It survived quite a few laps around the pond. The...
Hi. I, am a 100% boat noob and a 100% powerboat noob. Absolutely zero experience with any of it. My ignorance, is staggering, yet entertaining....