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 Sanctury Cove patrol boat with Cruise 4's Sanctuary Cove is a waterside community in southeast Queensland well known in the boating world for their hosting of one of the best known boat shows in Australia. They are now setting new standards with their adoption of electric outboard powered vessels for their security patrol. → Read more…  Sneaking up on a pelican—not I snuck way from the solar boat project under cover of darkness to check out Claude’s radical trimaran—kind of reminds me of a stealth bomber especially in its current grey livery. The weather around these parts has been pretty rainy and windy as you can see from the photos. → Read more…  Geoff and his Porta-Bote Geoff Maloney has just taken delivery of a 1003 and has passed on some photos and a some performance data when running on his Porta-Bote. Here’s what he has to say about it… → Read more…  Ultralight motor on the back beam Getting becalmed for a couple of hours in Darling Harbour on a Hobie Wave catamaran can get you the unwanted attention of impatient ferry captains. That’s why Lakshman decided to get an Ultralight kayak motor and have it mounted on the aft beam of his cat. And with a weight of only 7kg it would not be detrimental to the sailing performance. Our mission was to come up with a way of installing the motor on the beam and stashing the battery in one of the hulls. → Read more…  Tim and Jocelyn with their new Torqeedo 1003 It took just a quick test drive of a Torqeedo on the Zodiac around Crystal Bay to convince Tim and Jocelyn that a Travel 1003 would be ideal match for their inflatable dinghy which they carry in their motorhome. Well, its not really a motorhome—with 1500 watts of solar panels on the roof its a mobile power station! (Take it from me, thats a lot of power—my yacht, Current Sunshine has only 460 watts and on sunny days its quite enough but rainy weather it struggles. With 1500 watts, they don’t have to skimp even on the cloudiest of days). → Read more…  Christoph's Gold Rush Aggressor Is this the fastest Torqeedo powered boat? Powered by twin Cruise 4′s and running the speed prop it’s maximum speed so far is 26 km/hr. This carbon version of the Gold Rush Aggressor was built in Australia for Torqeedo’s boss Christoph Ballin by Max Buhner at the Gold Coast. It now lives at Starnberg, Germany where its used for fun and experimenting with different props to see how fast it can go. → Read more…  What is all this stuff? David with the makings of an adventure. You’ll be intrigued as me by the hydraulic steering that David has set up on his SeaEagle kayak and how we combined it with the remote throttle to make a really user friendly rig. As well we’ve done more comprehensive propeller comparisons and I’ll have some graphs to show later. All in all it was a fun way to spend Sunday afternoon—mucking about in boats. David arrived at the Torqeedo Shop with his car loaded with interesting bits and pieces of mechanical creativeness. He is, after all a machine fitter, and you’ll see that becoming clear as he puts it all together for us. → Read more…  Hulls and beams newly painted - and take a look at the pod coming along... Tarci and Sue’s Wharram 38 is beginning to look schmick after its new paint job – and what friendly colours they’ve chosen. Well, Sue really. They have some really innovative plans with this boat including being able to easily beach her which will make the entire coast their cruising ground—not just the harbours and anchorages that most of us restrict ourselves to. → Read more… David and Yukiko at Pittwater in their new inflatable kayak I’d like to introduce David and Yukiko in their new inflatable Sea Eagle kayak with the Torqeedo Travel 1003 on the transom. Its a nice stable design and the catamaran configuration makes it ideally suited to fitting an outboard with the prop between . . . → Read More: Catamaran kayak |
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