Makes it sound like a good low battery alarm option if it'll start up
automatically on bilge watch. Add a cellphone auto dialler interface,
and your boat anchored a hundred miles away in a cell phone area can
look after herself during the week, calling home even on a battery too
low to start the genny. With a propane safe style locker and an air
inlet tube for the engine, it might even be convenient to move it from
the mother ship to the gig.

If it's portable, it might go in the dinghy to backup long trolling
motor trips, say for groceries from the mouth of the Jemseg to
Gagetown, a comfortable hour by dinghy with a gas outboard, or a nail
biter with only one battery. You could use a real small battery to
buffer the genny for the Min Kota or for short trips, and you could
control the cg better than with a larger outboard, let alone lugging
one.

It sounds like a winner to me.

If it was silent, and if synergy works in an insulated boat with
seawater cooled intake ventilation and exhaust air heat exchanger fan,
adding a little air conditioner, say 200 watts or so, carved out of a
solid state cooler box, might just make sweltering nights on a tiny
boat bearable, so long as the exhaust is always downwind from the
intakes, or exits high up, away from cooler intakes, say up the mast...

You might even be able to collect some condensed water vapor from the
cold plate, to mix with water purification fluid, ie Crown Royal..

A small enough ship, like a CL16 could also depend on a Minn Kota for
weekend excursions into airless hinterland fishing areas, where the
prime mover could make a mosquito proof insulated tent liveable and
pilotable.

Now, if everything needed only one fuel, like camp stove fuel, or LPG,
or if you had a diesel camp stove. Did you suggest it could be made to
run on canola oil or ethanol?

They camp out in Volkswagens, don't they?

How about a pto shaft for a rooster tail prop shaft, pump or power saw
/ drill?

Price? Oh, make the auto self start an option.

Terry K