The ferry boat has been completed in an unpowered form for quite some time now. More recently, I’ve been waiting for the welders to weld on the motor and propeller shaft mounting so that we can begin doing powered tests.

I wanted to the welders to focus on the welding of the structure of BaanLoiNaam, but that was completed recently, so they got the chance to install one of the two motor and propeller shaft mounts.

Here is a close-up of the motor mount:

And the large 30cm (12″) propeller in the water:

This design ended up sticking out from the boat a bit farther than I would have liked. I’ll have them adjust that before putting on the other side.

Now I just need to find time to work on the BLDC driver circuit. Hmm… not sure when I’ll get to that. :-