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Jules Vern Motor Yacht

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Submitted by Clive Beard. 
The project was started in November 2011 with the kit from Graupner and was finally launched on 30th June 2013. There were several holdups during the build, initially due to missing parts in the kit, then having builders in and finally the nice men at Customs and Excise taking three months to clear some parts I had ordered from the USA. 
The boat is fitted with two 21KV water cooled brushless motors and each is fed by 60 Amp water cooled programmable speed control. The cooling water is pumped from a single pickup under the hull and exits above the waterline on the stern. The pump is switched on and off by radio via a solid state unit. There are bow thrusters fitted that are controlled by a 15 Amp electronic speed control. The lights: port, starboard, stern, running, anchor plus the radar are switched via a relay unit. The drive motors are supplied by two 11.1 Volt lithium polymer batteries connected in parallel and the rest of the boat by a 6 volt NiMH battery.






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