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visitor_name: Mat from Hampshire
Email:      
Date:         20/09/2008
Time:         12:36

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Great website. The River Thames slipways section is extremely useful. Many thanks.

visitor_name: Rodney Jordan  St. Albans, West Virginia,  US
Email:       pahillbillybear"at"yahoo.com
Date:         20/08/2008
Time:         07:17

Comments:

Very nice site.  I know nothing about electric propulsion for a boat.  What little bit I do know would involve watching my favorite fishing show on Sat. mornings as a child while the host moved his bass boat close to the lily pads with his Minn Kota.  England is well ahead of the US in boating (especially affordable boats).  Now I find out you folks are also ahead of us in electric propulsion.  I would be very interested in hearing from your members on the types of motors they use and they durability.  I'm not a member yet, but my request to be admitted into your organization will be coming shortly.  Keep up the good work.  Maybe folks over here will catch on. 

visitor_name: Phillip Rimmer, PTBO ONTARIO CANADA
Email:       rimmerbp"at"sympatico.ca
Date:         24/07/2008
Time:         20:56

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After flipping through the list of comments and noting the addresses - Canada seems to be missing or am I missing the "Boat".   The Web site is very interesting - keep it up.

visitor_name: Olivier Boegner
Email:       concepthelios"at"hotmail.com
Date:         22/06/2008
Time:         09:54

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Our solar electric boat "Eolios" crossed the channel on the 17th June from Dieppe purely on solar power in 11hours. visit our website: www.bateauxsolaires.org/defi4.html Regards, Olivier (technician of the association concept helios propulsion)

visitor_name: Tom, Cheshire.
Email:       newhutte"at"dsl.pipex.com
Date:         21/06/2008
Time:         15:41

Comments:

Great website. Many thanks for practical advice for adapting an inflatable canoe to electric propulsion - even though I'm not yet a member. Very friendly. Best wishes, Tom.

visitor_name: Edwin Mearns,  Nowra, NSW Australia
Email:      edwin.mearns"at"gmail.com
Date:         31/03/2008
Time:         06:18

Comments:

I was very interested to visit your great site. I have just finished restoring a 1940's wooden clinker runabout and am now starting my next project . Building a 30ft bay cruiser . I want to use only an electric motor but have not the slightest idea about elect. power. Where can you suggest I start my research. Once again thank you for your informative site and I wish you and your members many more happy hours of silent pleasure.   Regards  Edwin Mearns

visitor_name: bruce soutar - DURBAN S.A.
Email:       headhunt"at"iafrica.com
Date:         15/11/2007
Time:         07:43

Comments:

I live in Duban KzN SA. and I am also an owner of a house on a well established inland estate 100km from the coast. Use Agreement Rules precludes petrol (which I support), but unfortunately also electric motors. I have used this medium extensively but am now faced with a motivation to the 2008 AGM. Has anyone been down this track and examined the positives and potential negatives. If so I would love to hear from you. Cheers from Africa.  Thanks for a great informative site

visitor_name: Elaine. Looe - Cornwall
Email:        info"at"kernowrat.co.uk
Date:         17/09/2007
Time:         21:54

Comments:

Excellent site, fantastic resource, thank you!  Glad to join and it's great to meet so many folks passionate about electric boating. Very new to electric boating & through my marine business (www.kernowrat.co.uk) we are lucky enough to have the chance to try out many of the electric outboard engines now on the market. Hope to convert 25' Norman Cruiser to electric in time for the Green Boat Show next year.

visitor_name: Edwin Osborn, Oxford, U.K.
Email: edwin.osborn"at"dsl.pipex.com
Date: 28/08/2007
Time: 18:21

We have just very successfully converted our 38' narrowboat to 12kW electric drive with a small rapid-recharge storage battery store and on-board 6kW diesel generator plus solar top-up. The boat can be used exactly like a conventional drive narrowboat - infinite range, slightly more continuous power, far more acceleration, but totally noiseless used "pure electric", slight hum when recharging. Any queries welcome.

visitor_name: Midcoast Marine Engineering
Email: seeships"at"hotmail.com
Date: 15/07/2007
Time: 19:17

Excellent Site. Presently designing a diesel/electric hybrid and would welcome any ideas or comments
(10 meter vessel, semi displacement). Keep up the good work and thank you.

visitor_name: Timberlake, McLeary, Scotland
Email: earltmcleary"at"yahoo.co.uk
Date: 20/06/2007
Time: 14:55

A very interesting site and well worth the visit.

visitor_name: Bruce Dillahunty
Email: cac"at"craftacraft.com
Date: 17/06/2007
Time: 02:57

Thanks for such a great web site and resource... I have tried to keep up with electric boating (see my web site at www.craftacraft.com) but hadn't found your site. I've added a link to you as another resource for us U.S. boaters to follow up on. Thanks again!

visitor_name: Matt, Mendocino, California USA
Email: mleach01"at"hotmail.com
Date: 08/06/2007
Time: 01:39

Greetings from California, Thank you all for your wonderful and informative website and all your good works. I just thought that some members and guests might be interested in the small electric boats being built at www.bobcatboats.com by Dave Thomson in Louisiana in the US. I just bought one and it is a very well designed hand-built little two-person electric boat, all set up and ready to go. Of course I envy the rivers and canals of my ancestors' home in Britain, but we do at least have a very nice river, great for wildlife and nature photography. Now I am interested in adding flexible thin-film solar sheeting of some kind to the little for and aft decks, either the self-adhesive type or something that I can rivet onto the deck, to help charge the single twelve-volt battery. Any comments or advice by members or guests would be appreciated. Cheers, Matt

visitor_name: Adrian Dalziel, Somerset, UK
Email: amdalziel"at"aol.com
Date: 25/05/2007
Time: 17:02

An Impressive site. I have a 24V Minn Kota in the Garage which I must dust down and try out with the Dinghy that is somewhere in the Garden!! Nice to see Tony Rymell fit and well and still enjoying his 'Blood & Custard' Boat.

visitor_name: Bill McManus, Logan Ut USA
Email: mtogdensci'at'yahoo.com
Date:  28/03/2007
Time: 20:12

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I am building a 24 foot Spray sailboat and would like to install an electric motor with regenerative sailing as the auxiliary.  The boat is just a hull at this time , but someday I will get it finished.  I cannot wait for the day that I leave the marina in silence with all the stares at my gaff rig boat...

visitor_name: Ray - Hillcrest, South Australia
Email: ray"at"yak4free.com
Date: 20/01/2007
Time: 23:35

What a great site! Well laid out, informative, entertaining and enthusiastic. I am fairly advanced in converting a kayak to electric power and would have saved myself a lot of trouble had I found your site earlier.

visitor_name: Joe Lewis of Hydrogen Engine Center in Iowa, USA
Email: jlewis"at"hydrogenenginecenter.com
Date: 06/01/2007
Time: 18:45

I stumbled across this web site while doing a research project for our company. We manufacture H2 and other fuelled internal combustion engines for the industrial market. We are very interested in building hybrid electric versions for the marine industry. I found lots of useful info here and plan to visit often.

visitor_name: Chris - Reading, UK
Email: chris"at"truefood.coop
Date: 26/12/2006
Time: 11:17

Jo and Chris live in Reading, UK, (Thames and Kennet canal) and have decided to investigate buying a narrow boat to live on.  We will power our home and travel by solar, wind and if necessary, eco-fuel diesel.
Any ideas, hints and tips (plus boats for sale) from readers will be gratefully received.

visitor_name: Richard Mcclellan, Greenville S.C. USA
Email: rjmboats"at"aol.com
Date: 29/10/2006
Time: 01:26

This site will help me with my winter project of converting gasoline to solar for weekend use

visitor_name: Ian Wilson, Blackwater Marina, Essex
Email: ian"at"straight-edge.co.uk
Date: 24/10/2006
Time: 23:38

By far the best web site I have seen for along time, Clear precise and informative, the application is in the post. We are designing a 22ft trailer sailer for coastal waters. Electric is the ONLY way to go for auxiliary. your contacts links will prove invaluable.

visitor_name: Rich Lisney
Email: mail"at"richlisney.com
Date: 13/09/2006
Time: 19:35

I had my 1936 riveted canal barge fitted with a Lynch motor about 3 years ago having sold my motor boat to fund the project. I ran dry on funds and the boat just sat there. It has given me a fresh perspective seeing the inspiring boats on your site. I have now just bought a set of 8x 80W solar panels to fit down the top planks (the boat is 72' long) and am itching to get it finished so I can enjoy silent, pollution free cruising.

visitor_name: Dave Suttle
Email: bathsmallgreenboatco"at"fsmail.net
Date: 03/08/2006
Time: 00:05

I operate river tours from Pulteney weirside in Bath in my 1950-built electric passenger launch, 'Viking Warrior'. (see members boats section). I meet all sorts of people from all over the world who are invariably very impressed with electric-powered cruising. The other day I was talking to some Dutch visitors who told me that, in Holland, electric boats are called 'Flwisterboot' which translates into 'whispering boat'. Spot on in my opinion!

visitor_name: Nguyen Chi Cong, SaiGon, VietNam
Email: nguyencong"at"mercedes-benz-vietnam.com
Date: 15/06/2006
Time: 07:40

Dear EBA Board Management, I am reading EBA site with great interest. I like very much the page "Solar Power". May we set-up EBA activities in Viet Nam, where is big number of river network and rich of the sunshine.  Best regards, Nguyen Chi Cong

visitor_name: Alan Lewis. Perryville, MD, USA
Email: lewisag"at"verizon.net
Date: 09/06/2006
Time: 04:50

Comments:

I live at the head of Chesapeake Bay in the US and have a 22' Catalina sailboat.  Would like to go electric with it, but haven't taken a serious step yet.  Your site may just be the ticket to get me going.  Looks like a great resource.

visitor_name: Alex.
Email: chamoix402"at"hotmail.com
Date: 27/04/2006
Time: 23:11

Great site, lots of friendly faces and characters, looking forward to joining,  Great pictures too. Really pleased to have found this site and organisation, great British spirit - thanks.

visitor_name: Duncan from Townsville, North Queensland, Australia
Email: duncangbell"at"ozemail.com.au
Date: 24/04/2006
Time: 12:12

Hello EBA, I am an electrical engineer in Australia and I have a keen interest in boating, so what better way to combine the two. Fossil fuels becoming outrageously overpriced and the love of doing some ground breaking trials. I am keen to learn all I can from this website and keen to give back experiences from my trials. This is just the place to begin and just the place to be an old hand. I look forward to reading and sending info as it comes to hand.

visitor_name: Fred Alexander, Franklin, North Carolina, USA
Email: skywriter1000"at"hotmail.com
Date: 06/09/2005
Time: 02:53

Comments

Your site is delightful and informative. Though I live in the Southern Appalachians in USA, I look forward to joining as soon as the long-deferred house painting is complete. I often have a 4 mile run in the Little Tennessee River to myself in a 1971 aluminium jon boat powered by a Minn Kota 55T. After some paddling, there's a spare battery and my Dad's 8 lb thrust MK and an old car battery come along as well. This stretch is impounded by a hydroelectric dam. Using a friend's GPS, I found that I average 4 mph, but at the confluence of the Little T and Cullasaja, once hit a blistering 6.3 mph! Today I tried to go upriver from the launch site on the Little T using my 55 and a borrowed 50 lb thrust motors. It was just too much. But I enjoyed watching a beaver dive, 3 locally based Canadian geese apparently on a training flight, talking to friends who walked along a parallel greenway, and, at 3/4 power, running even with a duck also heading upstream. As never before, I was very impressed by the technical achievements reflected in the duck's speed and endurance. I think I felt envy, too! Few outdoor activities have brought me more sheer joy in recent years that my trips down the river in this craft so silent that the tinkle of water under the aluminium hull doesn’t drown out the calls of bullfrogs. Thanks for the opportunity to share these pent up thoughts.

visitor_name: Nigel Tomkins, Shepperton. UK
Email: ntomkins"at"atlas.co.uk
Date: 10/08/2005
Time: 15:37

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Type your guestbook entry her reat site. Now back on the river (Thames, at Shepperton), I am looking to purchase a second-hand Frolic 21 with canopies etc. Any help, guidance would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Nigel Tomkins

visitor_name: Joe Schmitt, Scotland
Email: schmitt_joe"at"onetel.com
Date: 02/08/2005
Time: 20:01

Comments

Just the kind of web-site I was looking for. Want to change from diesel inboard on 8.3m 8t sailing yacht to electric propulsion. Would be grateful for any help to get started.

visitor_name: Ronnie - Suffolk. UK
Email: admin"at"elearn-university.org
Date: 01/08/2005
Time: 16:44

Comments

Wonderful site with terrific information available to electric boat builders and interested parties.

visitor_name: Malcolm Moss, Surrey. UK
Email: malcolmmoss"at"msn.com
Date: 25/06/2005
Time: 21:06

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Thanks Nick for a wonderful website. It is so impressive I wonder if anyone knows of any awards that it could be entered for ?

visitor_name: Gary from near London, Ontario, Canada
Email:
Date: 19/06/2005
Time: 06:01

Comments

Been looking at building an "E" boat for some time and found your site while searching for info. I live in Canada and so far have not found an organization related to "E" boats, so I guess I will be on my own. Thank you for putting your site up, it is a help.

visitor_name: Vince Murray
Email: info"at"vincemurraywelding.com
Date: 13/06/2005
Time: 02:13

Comments

excellent info, we are considering building a stainless steel catamaran electric and would appreciate any links to that end Vince

visitor_name: Paul Smith, Louth, Lincs, England
Email: jpsmith1945"at"btinternet.com
Date: 27/02/2005
Time: 19:20

Comments

interesting site, building a 16ft 1930,s style runabout at moment -- looking for ideas for electric propulsion any good tips anyone-- will need to use prop shaft and stern tube type assembly

visitor_name: Tom Fullam, Ellsworth ME USA
Email: ceo"at"downeast.net
Date:10/02/2005
Time: 18:42

Comments

great site would love your magazine in the USA.

visitor_name: P. Tarvainen, Helsinki, Finland.
Email: trustme"at"iamanidiot.net
Date: 14/01/2005
Time: 00:17

Comments

Nice craft you respected folks have, unlike my part-rotten GRP sailboat, electric since last august with 24V motor system. Can't wait for the next season to get all fixed and secured - and final cabling installed, 3rd layout going.  Have to get motor current readout, temp, ventilation too. Many details to look after but no more petrol, oil spills, noise and stink! in my sailing power. I can still hear my propulsion going but people in the next boat or onshore can't. Well the new diesels don't make much noise either but, you know the tiny difference?

visitor_name: Norman K. Stoller OBE DL, Cumbria. U.K.
Email:
Date: 24/12/2004
Time: 15:37

Comments:

The Orchard Belle (Frolic 31) situated on Lake Windermere Cumbria (U.K.) If you have an electric craft on this lake and would like to meet up for a drink in the season ahead kindly contact me. Electric craft owners visiting Windermere and would like to stay at (my) Lindeth Howe Hotel should also contact me and hopefully receive an even warmer welcome.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all EBA members

visitor_name: Philip Blomfield East Sussex. UK
Email: margaret.mugridge"at"btopenworld.com
Date:   23/12/2004
Time:  11:25

Comments

Great to find a boat site with some technical spreadsheet help. Will be back

visitor_name: STEVE . P.   KINGSVILLE ON. CA. USA
Email: whoopinola"at"yahoo.ca
Date: 10/12/2004
Time: 03:47

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I've have had an electric boat for over 5 years now. I sail on Lake Erie in Canada. It's been an adventure of trial and error, with the result that I can tell you with confidence what not to do , having done it myself. My boat is a 20 ft. steel life boat that was once on the now scrapped American Oil tanker Amaco Wisconsin . My boat was made by the C.M. Lane Lifeboat Co. Brooklyn N.Y. April 1930 . It will celebrate its 75th next year. I started out with 2 36lb trolling motors and 2 deep cycle 12 volt batteries. My first error was in permanently securing the motors to the hull. Trolling motors can't be left in the water that long or the seals leak ,and you're left with a big lump of rust. My second mistake was seriously underestimating the amount of thrust needed. 72 lbs was fatoo low. 150-200lb was needed. I should have used 24 volt from the start. Running out of charge once will teach you a very important lesson YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY SPARE BATTERIES ON BOARD . On the whole its been great fun. With a Victrola playing as we cruise out to the lake, the power boaters and yacht owners all stop and wave and wonder, "What's wrong with that boy?" They just don't understand.   

visitor_name: Bruno Franchi - Milan - Italy
Email: bruno_franchi"at"fastwebnet.it
Date: 04/10/2004
Time: 15:38

Comments

I visited the Web Site and I found it very interesting and easy to navigate. I write an email with my last news about new electric outboard and inboard engines with photos and technical data.

visitor_name: Ray Castell, Oxfordshire. UK
Email: ray"at"raycastell.co.uk
Date: 19/08/2004
Time: 17:31

Comments

I'm delighted to find this website. I shall soon be embarking on the build of a Selway Fisher designed classic motorboat and would love to power it electrically. I'm hopeful that the Association will be a great source of help with this.

visitor_name: Matt Strange - Caversham, Berkshire.
Email: mstrange"at"ntlworld.com
Date: 27/07/2004
Time: 15:59

Comments

Nick & Co, I haven't been on the EBA site for a while, but I am mightily impressed by how it has developed - especially the wealth of superb photographs (I'll have to add my little number to your members gallery)! As a member, there is a lot to be very proud of here and as a Thames boater, the up to date Slipway section is especially welcome - something that is too often overlooked elsewhere. Best wishes.

visitor_name: Paul Chapman, Duisburg Germany
Email: paul.chapman"at"t-online.de
Date: 14/06/2004
Time: 10:17

Comments

Designing an electric narrow-boat and shall apply for membership. Looks like there is a lot of experience and information here.

visitor_name: Peter Gafney - Finchampstead, Berkshire.
Email: petergafney"at"tiscali.co.uk
Date: 29/05/2004
Time: 11:04

Comments

A very interesting website. I shall follow it with interest. One day I hope to have a small electric boat. Finance & location permitting

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