My contribution to this string will be a bit different. I sail Cat-o-Lac. She is a 1987 NS 22 OB (hull # 54). I purchased her in the fall of 2015; gave her a new sail in 2016 and replaced the original Mercury 9.9 in 2017 with a new Mercury ProKicker 9.9. Although I have less than 100 hours use of that engine I have decided to replace it this fall with a Torqeedo Cruise 6.0 electric outboard. I had been considering this move for some time. Then I watched a YouTube video of a comparison of electric outboards at the Dusseldorf Boat Show. The EPropulsion display included a EVO 1.0 running in a tank of water beside an equivalent gas outboard. The water in the EVO tank was crystal clear while the water in the gas outboard tank was filthy. Seeing this I was convinced. The water I sail in (Lake Ontario) is also the source of the water for my shorewell so pollution in the water is a high priority for me. The cost of the conversion is not insignificant, but my inclination is to adopt green solutions when I can (we have ground source heat pump in our house; my wife drives an electric Smart car and I drive a hybrid). Will I regret giving up a perfectly good, lightly used gas outboard? I’ll let you know after I’ve had a chance to use the new outboard next season.
Good on you. You’ve simply made a $acrifice for the good of the planet and you should be plenty proud. There are a few gorgeous and fabled, wooden 8 metre racing yachts at the venerable Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in the Toronto Islands just off Toronto Harbour. They are stunning, with their countless coats of varnish. One of them (Norseman ?? Bangalore ??) gets it’s push out of the harbour and into the lake with the assistance of a Torqueedo.
My friend built a little plywood (Jay Benford, I think) cruiser and powers it with a Torqueedo. They are perfect engines.
Hello Bob…
Can you add me to the Electric Nonsuch list? Looks like you added me anamously, I’m fine with going “public” with my Electric Nonsuch26, since I didn’t do the conversion myself I thought I had little to offer those considering the option..I may join the discussion around "range anxiety " at a later date..
cheers, John Boquist