Regeneration while sailing

摘要

Regeneration of electricity while sailing-via the propeller's natural rotation in the flow of water-is one of the power generation possibilities with a system such as ours. Unfortunately, as I learned from Eugene Story at Maine Electric Boats, this type of regeneration would not be very likely with my boat. He pointed out. two limiting factors: Hull speed and propeller size. Increasing the hull speed of a displacement boat is nearly impossible, and I wasn't willing to start hacking away at the teak sternpost and rudder to permit a propeller of the size required for that purpose.