The cost of a suitable electric outboard motor is estimated at £3,000, and the Cathedral Ferry team is exploring all avenues to raise the necessary funds. Stephen is now appealing to Malvern alumni to help support the cause. “Our aging outboard motor is smelly, noisy and unreliable. It is also costing far too much to maintain, reducing significantly the amounts we can give away each year to local charities. It needs to be replaced but it makes no sense to buy another petrol one using, as it will, a fossil fuel. To match the environmental values that the public now expects, we must ‘go electric’. Whatever OMs might choose to donate will be gratefully received,” he says.
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