The 20 HP Honda outboard

The little 20 HP Honda outboard has served us well and at the next lift out we will remove it and we'll look more like a yacht again! This is good news because it means that the electric drive system has now done more than a year on King Malu without a problem and we are prepared to trust it as our primary source of propulsion (excluding the sails of course).

Dashboard display

I've been working on the dashboard display for the hybrid electric drive. On the Nicholson 39 the dashboard is small, being an old style yacht so the space for the chart plotter is also small.

This means than the chart display is small, which in turn means you can either see chart clearly or numbers (SOG, etc) clearly.

So the intention is that the navionics numbers will also be displayed on the new touch screen I'm working on.

The display has multiple display modes and allows you to set the motor drive mode too. More on this later when we make it all public.