Why not an electric trolling motor?

We got a Torqeedo Travel new this year. More expensive, and slower, than a standard gas outboard. But, no extra gas to store on board, or worry about keeping fresh. No maintenance other than wash down, charge, and keep clean. Breaks down easily to three manageable pieces. Submergible to 4ft. Quiet enough. The first mate can use it on her own! At top speed it just misses being able to plane our 9.5ft RIB, and you have about an hour run time. Took me 2-Days playing around in our marina to get it down to 20% charge. That included several faster and slower test runs, and a trip out to the #4 Channel Marker and back. I am not sure of the combined time, but it was about 3-Hours. We used it to ferry from our friends boats (and the shore) while on the moorings at Angel Island March 22-23. Mostly just putting around slowly. Charged for about 3-hours while our generator was on Saturday evening, and got home with about 75% charge. Down side is that it takes about 16 hours to fully charge (from 20% charge) using the 110Volt adapter/charger. Thinking of longer trips, an extra battery, or solar charger, is probably in our future. For this year we will harbor hop to Half Moon Bay, and Monterey, and spend a couple of weekends at Angel Island. We will be more than fine with what came in the box. We will see how the battery holds up as it gets some age, but right now I am a Torqeedo fan.
 
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