Jeff Danziger for June 17, 2024

Where’s the circling shark?

OMG, if these forward thinkers were the dreamers of yesteryear we would still be traveling in covered wagons.

Is he implying that boats powered by internal combustion engines don’t run out of fuel? If the point is that you cannot rescue a stranded boat by bringing electricity the way you can bring fuel, then he is wrong. There is no reason you cannot “jump” an electric vehicle by bringing a portable power source.

Shark , battery or Trump, which is deadliest?

Why are those boats flying through the air? When was the last time you saw the propeller of a ski boat while it was in the water?

Up through the early 1900s, automobiles ran on kerosene. You went to a general store and brought the kerosene home to mix and put in your car. Gasoline was a waste product that was dumped on the ground being the last off of the cracking tower in the refining process, and of no known use. Someone figured out that all that gasoline, being the highest in volume from refining, would work in the internal combustion engine. Soon gas stations came as demand came with auto sales. So it will happen with electric vehicles. Demand will make for more efficiency, more convenience, and some genius will figure out how to make it all work and become the next multi-billionaire. Follow the money.

This is one of the most infantile aspects of the EV issue, and it is proffered by the dimmest of people. Whether motor or engine, it requires fuel. The fuel must be stored somehow and there is no infinite supply. And this is done when it is well known that people run out of gas while driving (and boating) all the time. Truly, Danzinger is stupid, or he thinks his readers are.

Just to toss my 2 cents in… electric boats are nothing new.

You could find them on ponds and lakes 100 years ago and we have the trolling motors now, they’re a lot of fun and safe for the kids.

Anybody ever hear about that General Dynamics company in Groton, CT, building submarines for the US Navy? Its name? Electric Boat.

also, electric boats are already a thing and have been for quite a while.

sure hope the electric boat isn’t in any shark infested waters if it develops a leak. (let’s see- which choice would i make???)

I’ve only been on a motorboat once or twice, but I do enjoy motorboating.

If Traitor Trump, with his syphilis-ravaged tiny little brain, is re-elected, we will all be up sh*t creek without a paddle!

There are already electric ferries and many boaters have electric trolling motors. I’ve been on lakes where only electric motors are allowed and that was decades ago when all people had were lead-acid batteries.

But there are already a many electric boats in service — and not only those with little trolling motors. See, e.g., the boattest-dot-com Web site.

They already have electric outboard motors. Electric has better acceleration than internal combustion. Getting a skier out of the hole and on plane is easy.

I’m not a boater, so I ask “Do boats normally carry a spare can of gas onboard?” Every time I’ve been out on the lake, and a boat runs out of gas or has other trouble, I see another boat tow it back to a dock – I’ve never seen somebody had a gas can from one boat to another.

Electric vehicles can use some of their charge to partially recharge another electric vehicle. It requires vehicles that have the correct circuitry as will as compatible cables. It is possible to do this with boats, but I still think that more likely a working boat would tow the disabled boat to shore.

Carrying a back-up battery will be a lot less dangerous than carrying extra fuel.

Both types of vehicles run out of fuel, BTW.

Watch out for the sand sharks in the desert

Those electric sharks might get you! Just ask Trump!

They already exist. I’d like to see props replaced by jets, though. Manatees need to have fewer injuries that we inflict.

where’s that shark orange rapist was talking about?

Lurion iON21 all electric bass boat, constantly and automatically calculates battery percentage and remaining range. Now, if you’re not drunk or distracted, you might head back to your boat slip before running out of fuel.