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The Journal of the Electric Boat Association (Affiliated with EVA)

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HAMBLEDEN MILL MARINA MILL END, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, OXON. RG9 3AY. EBACALENDAR 1992 Telephone: Henley 571316. 10th APRIL The Thames agent for The Steam & Electric Launch Company River Thames Society/ EBA Lecture Electric Boats-Past, Present and Future Paul Wagstaffe at Liston Hall, Marlow New Frolic 21 Classic, navy hull with teak decks and teak 8 p.m. half canopy, off white canvas, many extras. 23-25thMAY The Henley Slipper Launch-the first electric slipper launch with glass fibre hull , handcrafted all wood Participation in IW A Rally, Taunton interior, 2kw motor, seats 8. MAY/JUNE EBA Lower Thames Rally JUNE Wargrave-Henley Rally for electric boats 23-26th AUGUST Participation in IW A Rally, Wakefield AUGUST /SEPTEMBER DISCOVER THE GENTLE ART OF BOATING Participation in Cookham Regatta The electric canoe, a 26ft version of the Edwardian \ favourite. the Mystic "Weekender"-the first electric cabin cruiser Proposals for other events to with full facilities. Edward Hawthorne ~~ Please call 0491 571316 (0628521606) =~~INDUST RI ES and ask for Peter Jones - - ~ FEDE RAT ION

Page 2 Electric Boat News: Winter 1991/2 The Journal of the Electric Boat Association Volume 4: Number4: Winter 1991

Chairman/ Editor: Kevin Desmond, "Fairfield", 122 Olive Road, London NW2 6UU. Membership Secretary/ Treasurer: Fraser Brown, clo The Mouse Hole, Abbey Road, Knaresborough HG5 BHX.

Chairman (Users' Group): Edward Hawthorne, "Waters Edge", Riversdale, Bourne End, Bucks. SL8 5EB. ~.m~

Main Cover Photo: MotorGuide Challenger's quietness of operation enabled her to share the lake with ether users. Inset: "Youth Afloat" ... Steven Forbes (14), James Lyndsay (13) and David Billingsley (15) at the end of their successful marathon.

Welcome New Members Mrs K. Bartlett-Cricklade, Wilts. Victor F. Farrant­ Hampton Magna, Warwick. Joseph Fleming III- Highland, New York, USA. Patrick Harrison­ Hampton, Middx. John Hill-Manton, Rutland. Paul Truelove-Grasmere, Cumbria.

If the EBA success can be measured by frequency of events, built by students from the some twelve competitors (3 then 1991 has proved a champagne Constanz Fachhochshule under German, 1 Swiss and 8 Italians). year: the direction of Prof Schaffrin the winner of Il Trofeo dell' Isola INNER LONDON posted 2nd. Korona is fitted with was Giovanni Angiolini in an on-board computer to efficiently Solone, a Category 1 (solar On Wednesday 12th June, a monitor the input of solar energy. prototype) boat. specially fitted-out dark green Frolic, Peter Pan, was given a Present as official observors champagne launch into the SOLAR AGAIN ... were Herr Dr Ralph Frohling, Serpentine at London's Hyde Park. This baby sport may well look President of the International Ten days later, she went into back at the weekend of 6th17th Union of Motorboating (UIM), regular hire operation. At first July 1991 as a benchmark for the Signor Raffale Chiulli, President recharging was done from the International simplification of a of the UIM's Sporting Commis­ boathouse, but since then a cable sport which, until then suffered sion, together with the Italian has been run out to a mooring from a multiplicity of diverse Motorna u tical Federation' s buoy, so Peter Pan can be regulations. General Secretary and Sporting Commision President. recharged overnight. On that weekend, thanks to the In addition, another Serpentine efforts of new EBA member, Following the event UIM boat, Celebration 90, has Signor Leonardo Libero of Turin, President Frohling requested that returned from the Norfolk yard an "experimental" contest was thee electro-solar boats be present retro-fitted with a 1.2 KW Combi held on Italy's River Po from the in Monte Carlo Harbour for the outboard, Celebration has gone Federal motorboating base of UIM's November Conference. The into operation at Regent's Park Casale Monferrato. Present were UIM would pay crews' hotel Lake. We feel sure that the Lido expenses during the Meeting. ~ manager, Mr Bulman, will be very satisfied with his decision. SOLAR ... Take Solar-electric boating. on 15th/ 16th June, three days after the launch of Peter Pan, the first heat of the Second Longines Trophy Championship was held on Lake Maggiore over a distance of 62 Km, between Locarno and Ispra, taking in Brissago, Verbania and Lesa. First three places were taken by Germans. Team Mirwald of Bavaria, with ..."",,", by C.~~h.m Ulhogrnphk s"a;~. «e ! ! 16a Bridge Street, Caversham, Reading, Berkshire RG4 8AA. X Off-Shore and Solar Yacht, Tel: 0734481086 & 470415. Fax: 0734484775. came 1st and 3rd, whilst Korona, __------.:: £L

E lectric Boat News: Winter 199112 P age 3 THE FOLLOWING again on July 14th, Snohomish sent out, 40 public utilities WEEKEND ... County PUD (Washington State) chickened out. Only five boats organised what they claimed as entered, and five finished. Late Saw the Traditional Boat Rally "The First Annual International entry Butch Spafford edged out at Henley on Thames, where a Electric Boat Regatta" at the Bill Birdlebough by inches in an whole fleet of electrics (following Nighthawk site on Spada Lake in exciting finish. Birdlebough's appearances at Wargrave) were in the Sultan Basin Recreation Area. complaint that Spafford had three evidence. And in their midst, the Spada Lake's development began batteries to his one, was overruled first public re-appearance of in 1917 as a source of drinking by race officials. Beazie, Beatrice Lillie's Veteran water, the building and raising of a electric canoe which inspired Millers Lass. Her mahogany dam as a boon to commerce. Until recently, there were "Keep Out" • Editor's Comment: Whilst bottom has been replanked, she's signs, but with the building of the been given new mahogany and events at London's Little Venice Henry M. J ackson Hydro-electric spruce decks but her original motor and California's Newport Bay lay Project new recreation sites and greater claim to have been the is running again, its armature facilities were built, although iIc having been re-wound. world's first, the Snohomish event engined boats were banned. is to be welcomed and will surely Meanwhile, "across the Pond", Although forty invitations were grow ...

FOUR WEEKS LATER ... Electric boating may well have scored a first on August 10th when an ElectraCraft Party Boat 16 was used on the River Thames as part of the wedding of Mr Gary Piercey to Miss Toni-Jean Moore. The boat, imported by Gibbs Marine of Shepperton, of which Mr Piercey is General Manager, was used to take the bride and bridesmaids to the landing stage of St Nicholas's Church, Shepperton, whence the Vicar and choir processed with them to the waiting groom. Vows exchanged, Mr and Mrs Piercey et. al. left by boat for their reception. Congratulations!

A FORTNIGHT STAELCO made the maiden trip of England. Here, where electric LATER ... just one day before the demonsra­ boats have since 1976 been the only A demonstration of electric tion. Both these additions to the way allowed through the Tipton­ boats, first of its kind in the electric fleet are providing N etherton tunnel, whilst the Netherlands, was organised in the additional proof that electric Thames Electric Launch Company lake district of Reeuwijk on sunny boating is not just possible by that were showing a Duffy, the BBC's it is performing extremely well. Cliff Michelmore did an interview 23rd August. Some 15 different , boats, with inboard, outboard or about the advantages of electric I.~ "underboard" motor were shown to THE NEXT THREE boats with BW's David Allison. a group of well over a hundred DAYS ... That weekend also saw the visitors. Local and national press 24th/ 25th/ 26th August saw the second heat for the Second ~ were favourably impressed and Inland Waterways Association's SEV (the "Stichting Electrisch Festival at Dudley, West Midlands Solar catamaran 81'90 Varen") is convinced that it was an important step in promoting electric boating. Two of the participating boats were launched quite recently. Firstly a POCA-19, a 19ft sloop of Danish origin, provided with two 1.2kw permanent magnet motors and a Curtis controller, turned out to be a fully competitive with the standard version equipped with a 10hp diesel engine. And second a 17ft mahogany flat, with a 3kW Nexus engine supplied by

Page 4 Electric Boat News: Winter 199112 Longines Trophy Championship on the Schwarzee in Switzerland. Some sixteen boats took part, most of them solar-powered on a lake hitherto forbidden to powerboats. The winner was the solar­ catamaran ST90 of Scholl from Geneva, with runners up Mirwald Electronic from Bavaria and Heinz and J acop Ossenbrink from Berlin. Our very own EBA member, Andrew Spyrou with his Solar­ Powered Craft became the first ever British entrant to take part in these truly international contests. How about a few more Brits .. ? Solar sport on the Schwarzee

FOUR DAYS LATER ... On August 31st, came the second electric boat parade at Cookham Regatta (August 31st). A very good rally in glorious weather. Seventeen electric boats paraded past the crowds, showing them the ever increasing variety of shapes and sizes now available, from an electric outboard dinghy Trout up to the 30ft inboard Wagtail V, including a gaggle of Frolics, two canoes, a punt and last but not least two American imports (the Baycruiser Windsor and the Duffield Margot. About half a dozen in the fleet were able to enjoy lunch alongside each other. The Baycruiser Windsor

THE FOLLOWING DAY London Ltd.), Philip Windwood best payment system will then be But over in Venice, some ten (Eastern Electricity), Robin finalised. This achieved industry solar-powered boats took part in Newlands (NRA Thames) and Pat reps will design and build a the Historic Regatta along the Wagstaffe (EBA minutes-taker!) prototype box for installation and Grand Canal of that Northern It was agreed that although at testing at Hambledon Mill Marina. Italian city. Watched by European present the majority of charging Hopefully the first of many. For its VIP's journalists and thousands of needs for electric boats could be own part, Messrs Tye and spectators, the solar fleet was met by a 16-30 amp system, Chamberlain for the EBA are now applauded enthusiastically as they installations should be larger to pressing on with identifying cruised past noiselessly and with allow for increased boat sizes, electric boat users' needs, just the sun as their fuel ... opportunity charging and the particular searching out new proliferation of on-board "house­ potential charging point locations hold" equipment. at overnight moorings, pubs, TEN DAYS LATER ... hotels, marinas and boatyards, It was also agreed that the basis canal towpaths, farms and lock On 11th September, Southern of the electric boat charging islands. THIS IS WHERE YOU AS Electric hosted an informal standard would be that published MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO meeting at their Slough HQ to by BW and which recommends the SEND IN ANY SUGGESTIONS. discuss boat charging standards use of the BICC Marechal socket on the Thames. This was also a type D532/ 50. In time, Information Sheets will follow-up to the NRA meeting at also come "on tap" giving Reading this February (see EB ACTION PLAN guidelines on charging point News IV page 2). issues - including many other The Navigation Authorities points discussed at the Slough Present were Edward Haw­ have had further meetings since Meeting. thorne (EBA Chair), David Allison then to firm-up the technical (BW), Stephen Thackray (Mare­ specification for the standard • Editor's Comment: The proto­ chal), Gillian N ahum (STAELCO), charging point and associateel type charging point should Dennis Tye, Derek Chamberlain safety and cable requirements, completed to a strict deadline, (EBA), Steve Lewin (Southern including the issue of providing for definitely in time for the EBA's Electric), John Gardner (Benning earth loop monitoring. Be it tokens, tenth anniversary on May 20th UK), Bernard Reid (Starkstrom coins, credit or "smart" cards, the 1992. ~

Electric Boat News: Winter 1991/2 Page 5 THREE DAYS LATER And for the next seven days, visitors to the Southampton International Boat Show were able to walk past three stands exhibiting electric boats - ElectroCraft (Gibbs Marine Sales), Duffield (TELCO) and the first public launch of the live-on-board weekend cruiser, the Deltic (STAELCO). Named after a famous express train but with the characteristic "-ic" affix, the first Deltic, has been commissioned by Adrian Tilbury to add to his Swancraft fleet. Designed by styling. It has a little cooker, wonder the "Southern Evening Andrew Wolstenholme, it mea­ washbasin, porta-potty and beds. Echo" did a special feature. sures 21ft overall with an 8ft beam. It feels reasonably spacious." Another exhibitor, Drascombe of "I'm very enthusiastic about this Whilst twenty-two Southampton Totnes in Devon, builders of The boat", Latham told customers at Boat Shows had seen a distinct Henley day-tripping launch took Southampton. "Not only do I think absence of electric boats, suddenly a shine to replacing their petrol it looks great with smart 1990's there was a five-strong fleet, so no unit with an electric one ...

ELEVEN DAYS LATER Back in Europe, on Monday 2nd October, STAELCO gave demon­ strations of Electribelle, a 21ft Frolic (with slightly greater freeboard) to the five companies currently operating a 20-strong fleet of petrol tourist launches along the canals of the historic Belgian city of Brugge ("the Venice of the North"). How did this come about? During Move Electric '91, the EBA Stand received a visit from Mr Peter Van den Bossche of Brugge, Calgiari, Chatellrault, EV Seminar with speakers from Coventry, Dijon, Gent, Grenoble, WEV A (World Electric Vehicle Kortrijk, La Rochelle, La Spezia, Association), Belgium, France, Lausanne, Lyon, Metz, Monaco, Italy and the Netherlands. The Mons, Namur, Nantes, Oxford, only British speaker was Sir John Padova, Palma de Mallorca, Samuel of Clean Air Transport Pavia, Randers, Strasbourg, (Worthing, Sussex) and even his Trento, Trieste, Verona, and outfit is part-Swedish. Woluwe St Lambert. Two days later, Electribelle CITELEC holds the opinion that was trailered into Brugge, good way to promote electric complete with police escort. vehicles is to locate contests for According to Rupert Latham: "The them in the urban environment canal system is very tightly with its traffic regulations, and not controlled. The public are not around some closed race-track. To allowed to have any boats on there this end, they have so far at all. There is no public slipway. organised "Twelve Hour" demon­ People who have private houses strations at Brussels (,87), Brugge onto the canal are not allowed to ('89) La Rochelle ('90) and this year have boats. If any of the five at Padova and N amur. The Twelve operators put another boat into CITELEC, the European Associa­ Hours of N amur which took place service, they have to take one out. tion of cities interested in the on September 27th to 29th, However, after our demos, beneficial use of electric vehicles. involved 23 electric vehicles from 5 including a moonlit one, Brugge CITELEC was founded in countries; at the same time Gillian authorities expressed interest in February 1990 under the patron­ N ahum gave demonstrations up doing an experimental electric age of the European Community. and down the Rivers Meuse and boat for 1992, so replacing one of To date, CITELEC counts as its Sambre of Electribelle to the petrol fleet. We will be involved members: Antwerpen, Avignon, delegates taking part in the N amur with that challenge". ~

Electric Boat News: Winte r 1991 / 2 ST DAVIDS CHALLENGE TROPHY Organised by the Electric Boat Association

competition. Success, or otherwise, the waters on which the boat can In memory pfthe late Jestyn, the in the competition may not be be used. The boat must have Rt. Hon. The Viscount St Davids, taken as an endorsement by the suitable arrangements forrecharg­ the Electric Boat Association, in judges or the EBA as to the ing its power supply. conjunction with the Viscountess suitability or otherwise of any of St Davids and Mr Graeme Vanner the designs for any particular Presentation should consist of of Coventry Polytechnic, has purpose. Neither the judges, nor no more than four sheets of Al size devised a competition which it is the EBA will be part of any (or equivalent) plus a technical report. One of the above sheets hoped will help to develop electric contractual arrangements be­ boat technology in the years to tween any client, builder or should be the lines drawing of the come. designer of the boats. Whilst hull. The technical report should be compliance with prevailing laws brief, on A4 size paper and should contain any stability, resistance The Trophy, which has been and regulations is considered by the judges, responsibility for and propulsion calculations. It donated -by Fiona the Countess of should also contain details of the Arran, will be awarded for "a compliance with these, lies entirely with those to whom the law or method of construction and significant advance in the field of installation of power plant. It may electric boating." It will be regulation applies. While the judges will take every possible care also contain information about the awarded annually on a theme boat's intended role and market. decided on by the Executive of the papers and hardware submitted, they cannot be held "Electric Boat News" reserves the Council of the E.B.A. After the first right to publish details of any contest, this theme will be decided responsible for its loss or damage. If in the judges' opinion the presentation submitted. on two years in advance. It is open to professionals, graduates/ standard is not sufficiently high, Deadline. Intention to enter undergraduates and schools. the Cup will not be awarded. must be submitted as soon as The Theme for 1992, as decided possible on the form below. Final The Judges' Decision is final. by the EBA Executive Council, is entries must be in before 30th The judges cannot enter into any the design of a low-cost, April 1992. Both documents correspondence regarding their electrically-propelled "volks­ should be sent to Viscountess St decision. Neither can the judges of boote". The boat must be safe and Davids, the St Davids Challenge the Electric Boat Association make useable by all over the age of ten Trophy Competition, 15 St Marks any claim on the intellectual years. The boat must meet safety Cresent, Regents Park, London property arising from the and other regulations relevant to NWl, England.

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SIMULTANEOUSLY BATTERIES FOR THE citor" battery, the makers claim, can store 30-50 times as much On 2nd October at the British FUTURE -THE RACE IS ON electricity as the best existing Marine Industries Federation's capacitors and, weight-by-weight, futuristic looking HQ, Meadlake Under the aegis of the new has a capacity 20 times as large as Place at Egham, Surrey, ten Energy Development Organisa­ a lead-acid car battery. The members of the EBA Executive tion, part of Japan's governmental capacitor battery has a very low Council met to plan future projects agency, a consortium of companies internal resistance so it can be such as the aforementioned are now taking an intensive look at recharged in about 30 seconds and charging point, the ST DAVIDS improving battery technology. at much lower voltages than CHALLENGE TROPHY COM­ "Japan Storage" is developing conventional batteries. The new PETITION (see insert), the revised nickel-zinc and nickel-cadmium battery should be cheap and less EBA Constitution, EBA Informa­ batteries; Yuasa - nickel-zinc and harmful when discarded because it tion Sheets, an EBA Test Lake, and sodium-sulphur; Meidensha - is made principally from activated the encouraging fact that paid-up zinc-bromine; and Faraukawa - carbon and sulphuric acid. Its membership stood (at the time of nickel-iron. Toyota has also developers hope to have batteries the meeting) at 122. developed its own zinc-bromide ready for sale within a couple of Certainly not in conclusion, system. years and are looking at applying more in continuation with two Even more revolutionary, but the technology to electric vehicles. more heats of the Longines Trophy not in the consortium, car maker Meanwhile back in the USA, (Portofino and Monte Carlo), Isuzu and Fuji Electrochemical General Motors, Ford and Chrysler together with a planned attempt on have' developed a battery in the recently agreed a programme with the 24-hour Endurance Record, it form of a capacitor which hold the Federal Government under does seem that with some electricity as a static charge on two which more than $1.2 billion is to twenty-two events since April parallel metal plates separated by be spent over 12 years to develop 22nd, electric boating is gathering an insulating layer. This "cap a- a very healthy momentum. But advanced battery technologies. now for news from elsewhere ... FROM THE HEBRIDES TURKEY Imagine cruising, often at night, The electric slipper-stern Back­ down a 9-mile loch flanked by 3,000 To-The-Future has now become ft mountains, using an electric an elegant yacht's tender to the outboard to enable you to silently Classic luxury yacht, Savarona, creep up on any unsuspecting formerly built for the people of salmon poachers. This is some­ Turkey as a thank-you present to times the task of Aline Estates their great leader, Kernel Ataturk. keeper, Jim McGarrity. The name At long last, davitt-slung electric of the loch is Lagevat and you can tenders for yachts are back in find it on the Isle of Lewis, south­ business! west of Stornaway, on the Outer Hebrides. J im explains: "We've got two electric outboards, one of them RUSSIA BOOK REVIEW a MinnKota. We've found that at two-thirds speed we can get in We recently received a copy of "Papers presented at the silently, but haven't caught up .the February issue of "Motorboats International Conference on with them because of that, yet & Yachts" published from 8 Gogol Electric Vehicles for Europe". May we've had many occasions when Street, St Petersberg, Russia. 1991. Published by and available we have not alarmed them and got Therein was a five-page article from The Electric Vehicle in close enough to recognise them. about electric boats. In his Association of Great Britain Ltd. Coming down the loch with the accompanying letter, Deputy (213 pages). Price including wind on your back, then the electric Editor Domitry A Kurbatov states: postage and packing: £40. is perfect. But when it blows, it "1 must take notice, there is great If you feel qualified to blows. That's the test for a boat - interest to this matter in our understand the recent technical can it drive you against the wind?" country, but we have not available developments in electric vehicles "Up here in the Outer Hebrides storage battery - this is scarce good and their component parts and there is no vehicle noise or aircraft on our market now. Maybe, in wish to evaluate their future noise so a petrol outboard can be nearest future, crafts of English benefit for electric boat design, this heard from miles away - not so an Steam & Electric Launch Com­ tome is for you. The eighteen electric. Batteries are always the pany will be cruise on Russian papers are presented in the order in problem because we live in a very inland waterways, prohibited for which they were delivered during rough area. We bring them home at outboard motors . .. "Move Electric" at Trentham night and use a standard car "Watch this space .. !" Gardens. They are illustrated with battery charger for a steady 24- graphs, tables and diagrams. The hour cycle. The problem is always Electric Vehicle Association have that you need four on standby and BOAT MOORING decided to organise a second two in use I will be using additional Mooring near Sonning, for 30ft "Move Electric" in 1993, again to electric outboards this year on boat with electric power (13 amp). include boats, so it will be Lochs Tiosan and Raithaid for Please contact Tom Clarke Tel: interesting to see how things have their quietness. 0734 692563. integrated by then. . . •

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