Newbie from MI

[RobMI]

Just saying hello name is Rob live on an electric only lake in metro detroit. The lake is about a mile in length and is populated with electric pontoons. I picked up a small 14ft sea hunt pontoon 2 years ago that will soon be the target of a renovation lol.

[smltooner]

Welcome to the club.

[HandymanHerb]

Welcome, Cool, I was thinking about making an electric toon, since they now have the 200 hp motors.

[dockholiday]

Welcome
Guess there are a lot of pros to the electric. Nice quiet ride and probably don't have to winterize. Do you know how many lbs of thrust it has?
Think there are a few suppliers of electric motors for toons. Think one of them goes up to about 5k but are made for all electric lakes.
Finally found it, boy do i need to cleanup my bookmarks. My dealer uses these for people who are on all electric lakes
http://www.rayeo.com/inside-motors.html
Not cheap but good motors I hear
doc

[RobMI]

I cant remember what the minn kotta is on there right now. There are a lot of the ray motors on the lake here and have been for a long time. I'm in the works of ordering a motor made by torqeedo. Not trying to set any world speed records haha, just a small boat that gets me on the water.

[cbavier]

Welcome aboard Rob. Your Pontoon and Lake look nice. Pepsi

[thebiminibuddy]

Welcome to the site. Great bunch of guys and good information.

[RobMI]

Thanks for the welcome, I ordered a torqeedo cruise 2.0r for the boat. I will post results after I do the install. I should have the motor here the beginning of this week, just need to pick up new batteries. The I will hopefully be cruising around at a nice slow speed haha.

[dockholiday]

That's a nice looking motor. What thrust did you get? Does it look like any of these. Oh ran across what looked like an online owners manual also.

http://www.westmarine.com/1/3/cruise-2- ... -outboards

http://www.torqeedo.com/uploads/media/T ... nglish.pdf

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[RobMI]

I got the cruise 2.0r its rated at about the equivalent of a 5-6hp gas engine. I'm not looking to set any speed records just have enough power to cruise around and go fishing. The minn kotta motor just wasn't cutting it.

[cbavier]

rob that motor will probably do you just fine. I google searched and see they make a 4.0r also. I think the 2.0r had about 121 Lbs thrust. That should be pretty good. The 4.0r was
rated at 215 Lbs thrust.

For anyone else interested West Marine sells them so I know youi can get them much cheaper other places but anyway here is the Web Page with all the Data.

http://www.westmarine.com/1/3/cruise-2- ... -outboards

Anything West Marine sells can be bought elsewhere for much less money. West Marine is High Priced on just about everything. I use them as an educational tool but buy from Overton's or Defender Industries.