Living on an ALL ELECTRIC sailboat for 3 years | Beau and Brandy Sailing
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If you’ve been following our sailing journey since the beginning you’ll know that we’ve been living on an all electric sailboat for 3 years, Saoirse. Meaning, she …
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I can understand why you didn't video the engine swap….
…Too much swearing going on.
How much power does the insta-pot take?
I want to encourage you: you so close! Please get ride of your dingy motor. After, you can join us as engine free sailors! A sailing dingy maybe in your future, the inflatable type is just not efficient despite being popular by high-energy consumers.
Excellent.
I sea one chap was using his solar panels to catch fresh water he had a hole drilled in the corner with a hose pipe going in to containers. Easy to give a quick clean and run the brackish water off before collecting.
I'm going to have to vote for the old mechanics illustrated bicycle generator
Try a towable hydro Gen
Try a spreader mounted wind generator get an older model for now not as efficient and louder but it's another source.
Love the cute ending of the vid.
Whhooooooooaaaaaaa The T-shirt . I actually DO love that shirt . I’m gonna get one for sure . Can you guys sign it😱? I can wait love it. Big hugs. If ya can’t sign it that’s okay ? Are there other styles?
Hugs thanks for sharing love you guys .
Hold on… you can buy $3k of batteries but a wind turbine is too expensive 🤔
The zoom you heard was a lot of what you said going over my head 😳. Thanks guys.
congratulations on your 40k subscribers 🙂 well deserved 🙂
Love your show. Great to see the p35 and thank you for all your experience
Hi I see you follow Sailing uma they have the same make of boat you have and have Coverted to electric with a sail drive prop they use less power and have a alcoholic two burn stove. Plus they revamp the area of the boat. Take a look again at how there work would fit in your boat. Brendan IRL
Love this episode. I bought a 1971 Pearson 35 last November and am refitting as we speak; been watching you guys for over a year and only just realized a few weeks ago that Saoirse is a 1971 Pearson 35 too! LOL Want more serendipity? My vessel is currently parked at Riverside Marina in Fort Pierce, FL! She had the Yanmar 30 diesel, but it was sold as non-functional and I am looking to replace with the Thunderstruck 18kw, wired at 48v (so 12kw actual). I'm thinking I can run the glycol coolant through the batteries and the motor into a heat exchanger…possibly the one from the Yanmar 30…I got a decent price on some used EV batteries so I've been rewatching the episode where Beau installs Saoirse's battery bank for ideas about configuration. I am super interested in what you guys are thinking for a hardtop bimini constructed from panels, having basically had the same idea. Will you start from scratch or is it feasible to bolster your current bimini? Would love to hear what you think along those lines since you guys have a practical understanding of the boom movement and other considerations. Thanks for all you guys do!
Have a look at the rear shade solar-power system on the 30 foot boat belonging to the couple on "Free Range Sailing" It is extremely strong and laterally adjustable, and the next vessel I have I will build a system similar to this. My last vessel I had the solar panels drop into angle-aluminium frames bolted to the coach house roof. I would never do that again–the sails shaded them some of the time. The firther aft they are the better–and the more shelter one has the better as far as I am concerned.
Sorry to want to pick your brains but i keep hearing people talking about range limitations on electric motors in boats (seems like nonsense to me) …
Assuming that you had a little more powerful motor that could push the boat at hull speed against some (but not monstrous) resistance (current, breeze) at low revs. Apart from overheating (which could be managed with some sort of heat exchange system i suppose) is there any reason why it could not cruise endlessly in the Caribbean with adequate solar panels (with a moderate chunk of batteries for night and heavy cloud days) ?
Signed: A Country Bumpkin looking for education 😁
One of the best sailing videos ever. Human, humble, raw, and honest. Bravo! And yeah, I want that waffle maker.
Impressive!! Electric motor is the way to go. Your friends on Una, have managed to cross the Atlantic and even sailed to Norway with shorter daylight hours and rough seas using only sail and electric motor. I am convinced it can be done. I think as solar power with regeneration on the motor you can achieve this. Great video guys
Love your channel. Stay safe and looking forward to seeing you soon 👍👍👍
Wasn't me . I was gifted an Insa Pot from my daughter. Takes 110 but it is care free. Completely automatic so if its your time to sleep that can happen., A relay for your inverter would give you a way to shut it off. I thought your Tesla batteries were a cool way. There is a guy who makes them available for not much comparatively. One guy had something similar to a group buy where large numbers brought the price down for everyone.
BTW,,, push your merchandise more. Thats your income I'm assuming
Cool beans…
I too use Midnight & Magnum equipment. Now I was running an off grid ranch in Northern California (Mendocino) and liked that I could just jump up to Seattle whenever needed, but for you guys, thats a bit of a haul… only needed to once to rebuild the inverter.. I also had them design a complete large J-Box that "ALL" circuits ran into and were fused. Not sure what your doing as I didn't see one in your system. Trust me, its a god send. I love that at anytime I can just refer all situations through that box. My controller fits right on the door. Everything is positive side fused its so clean and neat.
They worked with me my desires and space. My batteries are AGM. and weight a ton as that was not an issue. But I loved them. This was before lithium research was that big. I also ran 10 panels…
You can read your manual to get your vampire draw, but I never turned my stuff off. The recvory was less an hour the next day, I was fine. The inverter goes into sleep mode anyway.
Good job not going below the 70% on the batteries…
Building that extra steel equipment with Stainless would have been pricey but it would last. Its pricey because stainless is so hard, and that makes it hard to drill. Its also a little hard to cut although not nearly as hard as it is to drill. I'd say to those who have working or easily fixed up (top and valve work) engines , use them till they are gone. Then, it sounds like electric would be the way to go because your not tied to getting diesel everywhere and can be self sustaining for longer periods. It would have been good for those who were told to quarantine on remote islands in the pacific, as long as they had extra parts for things like water makers ect.
I like the tilt on the solar panels. If it were me I would be adding a solar tracker to adjust the angle of the panels when at anchor and therefore you wouldn't have to constantly adjust it manually. I personally dislike having to constantly do something if I can automate the process.
That's a really nice solar system. Not sure what all else you could do.
appreciate the cons as well as the pros on the electric setup. keep it up and safe travels!
This is not a criticism only an observation based on 30 years of cruising about the planet. Being an engineer with a sailing background I'm always looking for improved systems at sea. Going back over our logbook, the most anchoring in one year was 90 times . Our average is under 40, if you use two litres of fuel every time you anchor, 2 x 40 = 80 liters x10 years = 800 litres x $2 per litre = $1600 dollars in 10 years. Based on the maintenance cost of a diesel engine being equal to electric motor and battery replacement. Electric drives certainly give cruisers a feel good thing as they move about the planet. Our cruising background has been in the more remote areas around the world hence a lot more anchoring. Great video. ⛵🌍🤔
Phil and Lynda
Hey B&B, I got a large charge out of that episode. Yuk, Yuk, Yuk…
Maybe add layered slide out or fold out panels where as when in calm or semi calm conditions these can be folded or slide out to double or triple the power output. These maybe could be incorporated or designed into being part of a hard top and then being used more of the time .
Great Video, thank you for sharing your life on the water! Love ya both like a Brother and Sister! Stay safe!
I purchased some stainless steel zip ties awhile back for use with my mast. That's what you need for the solar panels instead of the regular zip ties that you said won't last got them from Amazon on line for $12-$13 a package or for $35.00 you can get a tool to use with them plus 100 pcs of stainless zip ties.
You'd do it all over again except maybe the "small" water leak! Nice video
Love these videos! They are so amazing. Stay safe everyone 💕💕
Fantastic job! Outstanding info.
We need 100 subscribers for the 40,000 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Roll that beautiful been footage.
Great information!
Including the chaffle recipe.
Way cool, the time marks!!!
Hi Beau and Brandy we too have a all electric sailboat(cat) and loved sailing her and loved being offgrid and away. unfortunately my RA has made it impossible for me to pull ropes and winch and we are having to sell her. If ya"ll get anyone asking you if you know of another electric sailboat for sale tell them there is one in Stuart! You guys inspired us!
It makes little sense to through-bolt your stainless steel fittings, if you are going to let them rust like that.
Just wondering about your engine corrosion issue. You could check if it's properly bonded to an anode and if the anode is has not completely corroded yet 🙂 If it doesn't corrode over time at all that's a sign of problem with bonding cables.
Great video. Can't wait to do this kind of video on our boat… can't wait to tell people about our mini nuclear reactor. Lol.
Hey guys, not sure if will help you but I'm building a hard top from scratch. A huge one for my project cat, but same progress could be used. I don't like sharing links on others videos but if interested it's my latest video😁
Great episode an I so love you guys so much!! Cuz I learn so much an love to see what beautiful place your going an just enjoy you guys so very much ✌🏻💗😊❣️
Hi Beau and Brandy,
You can save a lot of money by buying individual LiFePO4 cells, wire those cells together and put a BMS between them and power producers and consumers.
Moreover, some clever guys had figured out that using supercapacitors to reduce spike-currents from the batteries will extend the lives of LiFePO4 battery cells by around 4 times. I have yet to figure out how to do that, but I know it starts with voltage balancing.
For those who don't know it : Electric current is measured in ampere, also called "A.", or "amps".
A spike current is a very large amount of current used in a very short amount of time. One can detect that by looking for a short voltage drop. The tool used to see that is called an oscilloscope.
The problem with spike currents, is that a spike current can exceed the 5C LiFePO4 threshold, Exceeding the 5C threshold significantly reduces the lifetime of a battery.
5C from a battery means that if the battery is a 100 Ah battery, 5C is a 500 A current.
Using a supercapacitor, most of the current come from the capacitor during the spike.
Using a supercapacitor : In normal operation the current drawn from the battery are averanged to a certain amount of current from continuously changing current drawn from the battery. By writing that I mean that, if you can read that a device will use, let's say 5 ampere, it's only 5 ampere on averange during 1 second. That is especially true for digital electronics like computers, chartplotters, and the likes
if you guys did a mini refit you would get double the subscribers. data shows that on other channels. great stuff guys
Just get an electric actuator and mount it to the panels.
I believe, it is 4kW inverter, not 4000 kW.