Motor into the engine room

The motor has ropes attached and Michael shows why he does weight training helping us move it into the engine room.

We need to line it up carefully, it's quite tricky with the belt drive system right down by the drive shaft.

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Motor on board

We took KIng Malu over to the wet dock and with two halyards hoisted the new electric drive on board.  Next task over the coming two weeks is to design and build the mounting structure to take the motor in the engine room.

Louis came down to King Malu and drilled and tapped the engine bearers to take the rubber mounts for the motor.

It's still hot in Cyprus and the sweat was pouring off him as he laboured in the engine room

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Motor arrive

TNT delivered our new motor today. This is the mark 2 and we have high hopes for it. It's been a long time coming and been through various iterations of design but at last... it's here!

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Ready for shipping

I have just spent the last couple of days in Italy with the guys with whom we are developing the new electric drive. A great two days with Rob and Simone. We tested everything and it's ready to ship to Cyprus.

The latest version now has water cooling, so we're excited to see if that solves all the heat related problems. Also now using a Curtis controller, which should be very much better than the first one. The plan is we will install and do first test, then Rob and Simone will come over to Cyprus for sea trials.

There was only one tiny thing... the prop shaft was too long to fit on the pallet so Simone had to cut it down to length.

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