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Re:Foiling Electric Boat by sailfast on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:02AM (#24223995)
Also saw the Zin yesterday - clearly not at the same level of production, but they went the non-foiling route, and it seems like the torqeedo has a bit more range?

17 knot min foiling speed sounds quite fast, especially for water skiing in any sort of surf, but the Candela looks fantastic for getting around the lakes / bays on shorter hauls.

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Re:Foiling Electric Boat by Candelaboat on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:42AM (#24224408)
We also use Torqeedo, and a 42 kWh battery (35 ish usable for foiling). The thing about range in electric boats is that you rarely get figures for range at different speeds. A 35 kwh regularly built motorboat won't get near 50 nautical miles at 20 knots plus, due to plain physics.
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