1971 Newport 30 Sailboat
All the new components should fit nicely into the engine bay; however, the batteries are longer and I needed to make new supports.
After that was done, I painted engine bay with a fresh coast of EzBilge paint.
In preparation for the new Victron batteries and other components, per plan, I took time to clear out the engine bay. Had to put in a piece of 2×4 to keep PSS bellows pressurized and avoid sinking the boat.
After a lot of thinking (and some $ saving) I’m finally ready to rip out my gel battery pack and jump to Lithium. The AGM batteries are now pretty old and lost quite a bit of capacity and power. The house battery is even older and can’t carry water pump and head flush well without severely dimming the lights.
The propulsion system setup I have now is something like this
I’ll keep the fuse, relay, and all the components of the motor but replace the rest with a Victron-based system so it will look something like this
This new setup gives me a lot of advantages:
Will be super fun to put this all in and configure it. Some of the components have already arrived. It’s a pain to get those giant new batteries onboard. Thanks to my dock neighbor Lauren who gave me a hand.
Met with Sean to do final planning, measurements, and parts buying for the electric engine install. That 2A cable is heavy!
The new QT10 electric engine from Electric Yacht has arrived today. Despite “signature required”, FedEx just dumped the $4.5K package in the corner of the boat yard and left. No phone call, no signature, nothing! Just an email that it has been “delivered”.
After almost an hour of searching, the package was finally located and dragged to the boat.
