THOUGHTS OF AN ELECTRIC SAILOR: Lost in the Marine Store

Recently I went to my local West Marine store looking for a shaft zinc. In my wanderings I found myself in the engine supply aisle.  As I looked down at all the fluids, fittings, tools and parts in that location I smiled at how I no longer needed any of them since I converted to electric propulsion.

ELECTRIC PROPULSION GOES MAINSTREAM

It did not take long for West Marine to see the future. 

Sorry West Marine. Been there, done that:

I've been very happy with my ASMO MARINE Thoosa 9000 system which I installed in 2008. Still it's good to see marine electric propulsion systems start to appear in stores like West Marine. Many of us who made the switch are never going back to diesel. Others will follow in our wake. No pun intended.Because electric propulsion systems are easily upgradable everyone will benefit from an increased users and improved technology especially in the battery area. Having the world's first electrically propelled Nonsuch 30 it's such a pleasure to open the hatch to where the diesel use to reside and just have the smell of clean and not oil and diesel. It's also nice to enjoy a quiet conversation in the cockpit as you motor out of the harbor. Perhaps others will now start to enjoy the same pleasant experiences.