MOG Made The Cut
The MOG Canal Boat named ALGEMAC II was selected by the entries committee of Off Center Harbor's World Wide Classic Boat Show to be displayed under the heading of Classic Electric Yachts during their two week online classic boat show. There were literally thousands of boats entered of which our private build prototype was ultimately selected.
The following is the information submitted, approved and displayed during the show.
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Bio :
I arrived by pelican near the end of WW II just outside Philadelphia, PA to a mom and dad both of whom embraced the idea of boating. My dad was deferred by command of General Electric, from enlisting in WW II for the military because of his critical work in solving problems with the manufacture, jigs and testing for the Mark series of torpedos. His passion for boats grew even stronger at his work. I grew up in a family of swimmers and lovers of all things rivers, lakes and seas.
At the age of 9, dad and I built our first boat in the early 1950’s, after many years putt-putting the family of four around in rented row boats with a 1920 3.5 hp aluminum Johnson outboard. The new plywood boat of 14 feet came as design from a boat magazine. A 1932 24 hp Johnson race engine (35hp) was purchased from a relative of the actual Johnson family who owned Johnson and Towers Marine in Philadelphia. The boat was open seating, tiller steering and designed for 16 hp, called The Whiskey. Like all things, dad modified it to a center deck/fore deck with reinforcement to 40 hp. It was very fast even by todays standards.
So it was only natural for me to pursue Industrial Design at Phila. Museum College of Art, Army artillery computers, Computer Aided Design and Engineering then designing my own family yacht, the MOG.
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At the age of 9, dad and I built our first boat in the early 1950’s, after many years putt-putting the family of four around in rented row boats with a 1920 3.5 hp aluminum Johnson outboard. The new plywood boat of 14 feet came as design from a boat magazine. A 1932 24 hp Johnson race engine (35hp) was purchased from a relative of the actual Johnson family who owned Johnson and Towers Marine in Philadelphia. The boat was open seating, tiller steering and designed for 16 hp, called The Whiskey. Like all things, dad modified it to a center deck/fore deck with reinforcement to 40 hp. It was very fast even by todays standards.
So it was only natural for me to pursue Industrial Design at Phila. Museum College of Art, Army artillery computers, Computer Aided Design and Engineering then designing my own family yacht, the MOG.
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About my boat :
The MOG Canal Boat is a TOTALLY SOLAR POWERED yacht and electromotive drive system. The initial concept laid to CAD was in 1986 when George McNeir wanted an enclosed boat that could ply near shore Atlantic waters and estuaries with family aboard. MOG (Marine Off Grid and TEPS, Totally Electric Powered Solar)tm.
After a year of technical considerations and deliberations of final use and application of a craft, George settled upon a fundamental change in the design criteria. Since the yacht would be solar electric, the roof (solar collection area) would have the greatest impact on the way the hull and superstructure were designed.
Hulls of different types and interior arrangements were placed on a 3D solids modeling CAD (computer aided design) system where the different elements of a boat could be seen to interact in three dimensional space. This new technique of solid models viewed on a computer was one of the breakthroughs for the design of boats and their cousins, aircraft. The base hull design for a Garvey type hull was purchased from Graham Byrnes NA as a stretched ‘C’ size drawing with a table of offsets. From that rudimentary information the MOG was fully developed as full size frame patterns, mass properties and bill of materials using CAD.
Between 1987 and the laying of the keel in 1988, a tremendous amount of visualizations were made and evaluated. The result was a stubby thirty foot boat where the roof camber, detail of the roof edges, overhang and rolled edge treatment became apparent to support a large solar photovoltaic array.
At the end of the century the boat was hauled out after having out distanced all solar boat records, to be lengthened to her present 40 feet. Many electric drive systems have been applied to this prototype, the latest are 3 Torqeedo motors. The last picture compares the Torqeedo controller with our custom controller 20 years ago. All this can be viewed on YouTube video documents over the years as well as documented in the MOG Blog https://mognavy.blogspot.com
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After a year of technical considerations and deliberations of final use and application of a craft, George settled upon a fundamental change in the design criteria. Since the yacht would be solar electric, the roof (solar collection area) would have the greatest impact on the way the hull and superstructure were designed.
Hulls of different types and interior arrangements were placed on a 3D solids modeling CAD (computer aided design) system where the different elements of a boat could be seen to interact in three dimensional space. This new technique of solid models viewed on a computer was one of the breakthroughs for the design of boats and their cousins, aircraft. The base hull design for a Garvey type hull was purchased from Graham Byrnes NA as a stretched ‘C’ size drawing with a table of offsets. From that rudimentary information the MOG was fully developed as full size frame patterns, mass properties and bill of materials using CAD.
Between 1987 and the laying of the keel in 1988, a tremendous amount of visualizations were made and evaluated. The result was a stubby thirty foot boat where the roof camber, detail of the roof edges, overhang and rolled edge treatment became apparent to support a large solar photovoltaic array.
At the end of the century the boat was hauled out after having out distanced all solar boat records, to be lengthened to her present 40 feet. Many electric drive systems have been applied to this prototype, the latest are 3 Torqeedo motors. The last picture compares the Torqeedo controller with our custom controller 20 years ago. All this can be viewed on YouTube video documents over the years as well as documented in the MOG Blog https://mognavy.blogspot.com
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The first US Design Patent was finally granted March 30th of 1993 with other Design and Utility patents and models to follow covering furniture, changes to prior art and innovations concerning new electric motors, batteries and fuel cells.
A customized remote motor control was fashioned for the 2 custom 10 hp converted Mercury ICE outboards (internal combustion engines). Center inset is a picture of the custom outboard’s innards.
Torqeedo power into the water compared to the 2 custom built (converted) 9.9hp Mercury ICE outboards. The 3 Torqeedos were less expensive and highly modular for any maintenance issues.
New Torqeedo controller/control versus custom units twenty years ago.
