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Hell ya! I was just looking over my fishing gear this weekend and, as a matter of total coincidence, the information about this boat appeared on my screen today.
Hot diggity, I need a new boat too. I have a kick boat right now, but need something that I can get two people plus a couple/three dogs into. This one might fit the bill. Sweet!It's a conversion that a buy named John Rowley of Humber Boats did. He took a classic drift/bass boat from teh 1970s and put a Torqueedo electric motor on it--these are more powerful outboards than the standard electric trollers. Then he added solar panels to the bow, put some marine batteries along the edges, and a few other electronics for the charging system. Viola! Electric fishing boat!
This is frikkin' awesome. It runs for about an hour and a half at full speed on a full charge and takes about 8 hours to recharge. Which is about how long you can float around on the lake in the daylight before running out of beer, in my experience.Get this: he's making these boats for sale through Humber at $7,995. That's cheap, since the motor by itself is half of that. Price doesn't include a trailer, of course.
Here's a video of Rowley talking about his creation:
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