Catweazel

Conversion date: 2025-09-30

Total costs: USD

12v/24v system: 12V 3,2kWh 24V 8kWh

Description: Very safe and strong, 8mm highest marine quality aluminium build, not too big for easy inland cruising, not too small for sea going adventures. 4380 watts of solar, devided over 4 independant Victron solar chargers, one of which can be used for shore power. Induction cooking, aircon, electric floor heating, electr bed heating… I removed all sails and mast to prevent shadow on solar, create more living space, and use bigger battery. First splash down will hopefully be around june ‘25, mainly for checking water line after this huge rebuild. But motor testing also already will be possible. 2 EVO 6.0.. Outboards, because they have the same quality as pod’s, but way easier to haul out for maintenance and prop cleaning when the cat is in the water. Having no ‘dangerous’ through holes also is a reason. And: Easy to take another, easily swappable EVO 6 outboard with me for redundancy on far away trips. Battery BMS is swappable within 30 seconds, in case of emergency. I have spare BMS boards with JBD300A and JK200A BMS (-ses) with me. I even have a ‘battery BMS bypass’ cable for really utterly extremely nasty emergencies! (Definitely NOT recommended)

Hindsight: March 20, 2026: My boat went in the water end of september 2025, and exellently survived a big bunch of tests on the water. I modified my 31kWh pack to a more sturdy 33kWh pack, and a few weeks ago, the 17 kWh parallel redundancy battery pack came online, making me have access to a mere 50kWh for propulsion only. And a few days ago, with sweathy hands, I dared to do a drastic BMS-switch off on the 33kWh main pack, with some 5000watts going through the total system… What a relief, when the redundancy pack seamlessly took over the entire load! Still a lot to do though: Anchor chambre build, and making the interior look like… an interior.. And the 24V 8kWh and 12V 3,2kWh systems still must be assembled. See you later…