Final update for converting the engine to electric.

Our crane date and expected completion should be March 29th, 2022.

Unfortunately, the propeller had not been delivered and I received

a cancellation shortly before this date. The vacation was

submitted....

I didn't get another vacation for the next crane appointment, so

the shipyard let our Mogrys into the water alone. Unfortunately,

the electrics were still not finished and the completion date kept

getting pushed back.

A joint test drive should follow on May 6th, 2022. Unfortunately

I didn't get any vacation again and the shipyard did it alone.

It was determined that the active water cooling pump was running

too loudly. This was immediately complained to the manufacturer

and should again mean a delay. Furthermore, one noticed that the

pump ran continuously as soon as the battery switch was flipped...

But we were allowed to do a test drive ourselves on May 8th, 2022

and drove early in the direction of Kiel. Appropriately in our eGolf,

of course :)

After we first had to look for our Mogrys, we made everything ready

for sea and started the engine for the first time.

After setting up the battery monitor on my cell phone, it started.

We drove north on the Kieler Förde in the best weather. The sails

were not used and we tried all load positions and looked eagerly at

the remaining run time and the power consumption.

At 2000 watts against the wind and current we reached 3.6 - 3.8 knots.

On the way back with wind and current it went to 4.0 - 4.5 knots. I will

find out the remaining running time, but the first measurements brought

about 8 hours driving time...

Power consumption 5000 watts our Mogrys went to 5.9 knots and at

11000 watts to 7.4 knots and the bow came out of the water and the

cockpit filled with water from the bilge hole in the floor...

All speeds are of course above ground from the plotter and not

through the water.

After docking, however, it was clear... It was the right decision

not to use diesel anymore.

You can find out more about the progress in my next blog.

We've been busy with the underwater hull for the last few weekends. 

There are now 5 layers of Gelshield 200 on it and that should last for the next few years. Unfortunately we had to find out that the keel needs a restoration next time and scraping off about 20 layers of antifouling wasn't fun either....

After we kept scraping the keel, a crater landscape came to the fore......

Then there was the problem of timing. We got a crane appointment on March 29th, 2022 and we had planned for mid-April...

But the shipyard gave the OK and by then the new Vetus E-Line 10kW should be installed and functional. So from now on it was grinding and painting at 5 degrees...

Of course, the shipyard was not completely idle either and installed a new shaft and the motor... If you want to know how big the LiFePo4 batteries are, you should take a look at the consumer battery... the big black boxes are the new batteries ;)

Yes, I have to clean up again, but I can't work with water in the cockpit at the moment because the inspection hatch hasn't been closed yet and I don't want to destroy the new engine right away.

The underwater hull now has the new antifouling and the shipyard still has to install the water cooling and the batteries. A Bluetooth battery monitor is installed to monitor the discharge and remaining time.

Saturday the waterless will be repaired and the saison can be begin :)