E-Propulsion electric outboard

[John Alexander Stewart]

Mainly for our Canadian members; we got a new dinghy motor - an E-Propulsion one. Not a lot of suppliers around, but in this COVID time, it seems that everything is ordered on-line anyway.

We got an E-Propulsion motor from the Canadian distributor on the epropulsion website -  Crafts Cove Marine.  Great service, no issues, arrived by Fed-EX as expected. This summer, we hope to be spending a lot of time "puttering about" on Cat's Whiskers, so this electric motor will come in handy.

No affiliation with the supplier, except that we (probably) both end up saying "Eh" too much, as our friends south of the border keep telling us. ;-)

John NS26C 046 on the cradle waiting for warmer temps in Bath, ON.

[Don Crossley]

Hi,

I got the ePropulsion outboard last year. At the time, Craft Cove was the eastern Canada distributor, and in western Canada its Western Canoe and Kayak in Abbotsford, BC. I'm not sure where the east-west dividing line is, but I do know they are not allowed to sell into the others area without first getting the others consent. eProp worked great on my 8' Walker Bay dinghy, comes in two pieces, each about 22 lbs, so very easy to install on dingy. According to the built-in meter on the handle, at full throttle, about 4.5 knots, the battery will last about 1.25 hrs. But reducing the revs to 3.5 knots, the battery will last 7 hours. I never actually ran the battery down enough to test the validity of the hours reported by the meter, but I believe they are true.

I suggest getting the bag for the motor section, and a spare prop too. I didn't bother with a bag for the battery. Motor bag makes storing in the cockpit locker a lot easier to handle. The spare prop is just in case you break the prop when far away from home.

eProp is especially fun to have when you can quickly pop into dingy and take off almost instantly... after having watched your dock neighbour try for two hours to get his Mecrury outborad started!

Hope that helps,

Don

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[Mark Powers La Reina 26C Vancouver, B.C.]

On the Torqeedo, they have a shear pin to protect the prop. The early versions were the wrong stainless formula and did not stand up well in a salt water environment. I learned this when I was a good distance away from the mothership. The pin sheared off in some weeds and I had a long row back. Plus there is no way to lock the engine to keep the shaft from turning so I could not fix it until we got back home. The only way the nut would come off was with a impact driver.  I now carry spare pins and each fall I remove the prop, clean the pin and put an anti corrosion coating on it.

Mark Powers

[Barry Connell]

What kind of dinghy are you pushing with the e-motor?

Barry 

N36 Nocturne

[doncr...@gmail.com]

The eProp has a shear pin as well, plus the spare prop was only $75. I figured I’d rather have a spare prop onboard than be on a 2 week vacation, a long ways up the coast, damage the prop, and wishing I had one. And these days with Covid getting spare parts is sometimes difficult.

Don

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[John Alexander Stewart]

Barry;

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 5:26 PM Barry Connell <envir...@gmail.com> wrote:

What kind of dinghy are you pushing with the e-motor?

For ourselves, it is a "true-kit" 2.5 metre inflatable. Rightly or wrongly, we are following the You-tubers "Sailing Fair Isle", the dinghy arrived in time for Santa to put it on-top of our tree, and, COVID-lockdown-angst made it simple to on-line order the e-propulsion motor on-line. The dinghy came from New Zealand faster than a package can get across the province of Ontario.

Note - in our household, the dinghy and motor will not touch water until the ice melts, likely May/June timeframe. The Sailing Fair Isle is a large sailboat, and they are live-aboards, so they use their dinghy often. I have no direct experience in how this stuff will work, just that purchasing was easy and fast for both items, and maybe of some use to the Nonsuch community.

John Stewart, NS26C 046, on the cradle waiting for the owners to return in spring; Bath, ON.