ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

[Fuzz]

Make sure you do NOT install it perfectly straight. You need at least a little angle so the bearings move and keep from freezing in place.

[glossieblack]

Make sure you do NOT install it perfectly straight. You need at least a little angle so the bearings move and keep from freezing in place.

Aquadrive specify a change of angle of at least one degree to facilitate self lubrication of the CV joints. To achieve this, I'll need to raise the engine about 3/4" above where it would have been for a dead straight shaft line. The aluminium angle engine beds are already in place for a dead straight setup, so I'll place 3/4" thick hardwood spacers between them and the engine mounts. As Cape Man would say, 'it's just a thing', and a very small one at that.

[topwater]

Love this boat , build on

[glossieblack]

Love this boat , build on

Thanks for following the build Topwater.

Today I collected the 16 lithium battery cells which will form the 48V 100 Ah battery bank for the electric motor subsystem of the diesel-electric parallel hybrid drive system. Grouped together the 16 cells are 16" deep, 21" wide and 8 1/2" high. Tomorrow I'll start building the starboard and port side battery bank container boxes, each containing 8 cells.

[topwater]

I don't think i want to know what those batteries cost

[glossieblack]

I don't think i want to know what those batteries cost

And I don't think I want to tell.

[Browndog]

This has been a great build to follow. Certainly it is one of the most technically interesting builds and ambitiously different as well. You've done a lot in a year. Congratulations and best wishes in the New Year for continued boat building success!

[Fuzz]

Totally unique hull design, inboard shaft and rudder, diesel power, and electric alternate power Yep everything Browndog said and then some. Like a lot of other folks I check this thread every day. Sometimes before I go to bed and then again with my morning coffee

[Dougster]

Totally unique hull design, inboard shaft and rudder, diesel power, and electric alternate power Yep everything Browndog said and then some. Like a lot of other folks I check this thread every day. Sometimes before I go to bed and then again with my morning coffee

Yeah, that says it for me.

Dougster

[TomW1]

Every time I turn around you throw a new one at us. Those batteries should provide you plenty of secondary power. Can't wait to see you finish this boat it is such a beautiful contrast in old and new.