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SARAtonin
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Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 1
#27293637 - 05/04/21 09:45 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Last weekend we rented a wakeboat for Jess’s birthday weekend and spent the weekend boating. And well... now I’m pretty hooked!
I’ve been shopping for a wakeboat ever since getting back, I first went to check out electric wake boats, this one specifically:
https://nautique.com/models/super-air-nautique-gs22e/overview
And well I’m rather disappointed... 2-3 hour is all it gets off one charge? Really!?!?? If that’s the case I guess that’s out of the question sadly, I’d like to have as little of an environmental impact as possible but that’s just ridiculous.
Do we have any boaters in here that might be able to point me in the right direction?
I really like Nautique and think their vessels look beautiful but I’m a complete rookie to all this so any suggestions are going to be helpful.
This is the current vessel I have my eye on since the electric one is no good.
https://nautique.com/models/super-air-nautique-g25-paragon/overview
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: SARAtonin]
#27293683 - 05/04/21 10:13 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nice, that 2nd boat looks cool as fuck
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: Gypsy Boy]
#27293796 - 05/04/21 11:08 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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wow are they really quarter million dollars+ ?
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: druqs]
#27293824 - 05/04/21 11:22 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'd imagine electric boats suck because of the amount of horsepower needed to get a waterskier/wakeboarder up out of the water. Probably need an even stronger engine for wakeboarding, since you'll add a bunch of weight to the boat to make a bigger wake.
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: SARAtonin]
#27293878 - 05/04/21 11:47 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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2-3 hours in a high power boat is probably equivalent to a 400km commuter car. Electric will always suck, until the batteries get bigger. Then they will suck more. I think it's funny that people are so hype about electric. A lot of the time it's more or less just an alternative rather than something better. Stick to combustion. Lol. Electric is just a trend and a way to diversify the market to make more money. Capitalism thrives on having ideas, they don't need to be good ideas. They just have to sell it. You know what's next for vehicles? Synthetic fuels, e-fuel. Combustion. It's literally better for the environment, proving that combustion has never been the issue only profitability vs innovation. Electric is a fad, Tesla being the Apple products of the auto industry.
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Wow I agree with you

An electric boat;
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theRealrollforever said: Wow I agree with you

An electric boat; 
What next a wind powered boat? LMAO
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: Eggtimer]
#27294058 - 05/04/21 02:01 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Mandarinfish said: I would never buy that boat. A canoe would get your further.
Ever hear of a sail boat? 
I would never buy that boat. A canoe would get your further.
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: Mandarinfish] 1
#27294085 - 05/04/21 02:14 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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An electric boat with a cord would allow you to bypass the recharging issues

Although you would need a lengthy cord 🤔
Look at this electric lawnmower 
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: Niffla]
#27294108 - 05/04/21 02:28 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I dont want a lectric boat until they make one powerfull enough to pull Me and Asante on water skis
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: Niffla] 1
#27294112 - 05/04/21 02:32 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Niffla said: An electric boat with a cord would allow you to bypass the recharging issues

Although you would need a lengthy cord 🤔
Look at this electric lawnmower 

OP is of the fancy breed she wants the wireless boat
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: SARAtonin]
#27294181 - 05/04/21 03:18 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Why do electric boats suck?
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: christopera]
#27294185 - 05/04/21 03:25 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Electricity, mostly, comes from combustion anyway. Power density of batteries is ridiculously shit and water is hard to move through.
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: christopera]
#27294189 - 05/04/21 03:26 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Because you can't really go fishing with them. A 3 hour charge? Mind as well spend about 200k on generators for a real trip, boating OR fishing. Guess what a generator runs on? If you're idea of boating is able to be done with a 3 hour charge, you must be having some jaw dropping adventures.
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Make a bank of deep cycle batteries then hook them up to an array of solar panels mounted to the boat to charge them.
On nice sunny days, if you can keep the batteries in float charging, you can possibly boat around all day long.
If you're willing to drop a quarter million on a boat I'm sure you could afford bells and whistles.
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: natedawgnow]
#27294229 - 05/04/21 03:50 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Boats are extremely inefficient at higher speeds. Water is a dense material and the resistance it poses to motion is a function of the square of your speed. There’s also no mechanism to use a boat’s momentum to regenerate power.
Electric motors are much more robust and powerful than gas engines tho. A fast racing boat that only has to run for a couple minutes would be an excellent place to use an electric motor
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: natedawgnow] 1
#27294233 - 05/04/21 03:52 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ha didnt even click on the links. Crazy that that little boat is over a quarter mil.
Great flex sara 
Too small to mount any solar panels on so scratch that
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SARAtonin
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: natedawgnow]
#27294250 - 05/04/21 04:10 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Looks like the links are working again, idk why they were not earlier.
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: SARAtonin]
#27294254 - 05/04/21 04:11 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I get feeling most of the posters here have never owned a boat. The mushroom forum is probably the worst place to ask about boats.
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Re: Why do electric boats suck!!! 😡 [Re: natedawgnow] 2
#27294262 - 05/04/21 04:16 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Great flex sara 
I think she's almost assuredly the historical shroomery leader in all-time forum flexes.
This is one of my favorite Sara flexes:
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SARAtonin said: Cool, now move it into ETH instead if you want to keep your investment.
I’ll bump this thread in a month when doge is worth 5 cents.
I'm not investing 100s-1000s of dollars..
Fair enough but investing shouldn’t be looking at as a joke. Some of us have 7+ figures invested and this isn’t a game to us
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