Electric motor

Always dream of the possibility of installing some form of auxiliary propulsion other than what is usually used on a sailboat.
In this way I would free myself from the eternal problems that there are always when you have a diesel engine, for example, having the bilge always dirty with oil, the smell of fuel, the noise of the engine and worst of all the damned contamination it causes. Taking all this into account, there is no turning back, so I chose to install this Torqeedo electric motor. I chose this brand simply because there was a distributor of this brand here in my city. There are many more brands but after studying all of them this was the least complicated to install.
With respect to the configuration and technical part, it is a Torqeedo Pod 4.0 motor connected to two 24-volt batteries connected in series giving you the 48 volts that the motor needs to operate. At the same time, it is connected to 6 solar panels each one of 50 watts connected in parallel resulting in 300 watts with their respective MPPT controllers.

The base where the motor was placed had to be reinforced; this part is an extension of the skeg towards the keel. Inside the helmet a solid piece of wood was inserted along its length and we glued it with epoxy glue and then it was covered with fiberglass in this way the bolts that adjust the Pod have a solid base and by the way any vibration is reduced .