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 Let us take the flack... By trading in your old outboard we might be able to knock a few hundred dollars off the price of a new Torqeedo. My buddy Malcolm who helps out around here when I’m out of town may be able to buy your old outboard. He has been able to help a few folks in this way by taking an old outboard off their hands, giving it a spruce up and then finding a new home for it. → Read more…  Goldrush cartopper If you’re familiar with the Torqeedo world you’ll know of Goldrush boats as the guys that designed and built the carbon Aggressor—the fast black boat from the front cover of the 2011 Torqeedo catalogue, and from the Cruise pages of this years catalogue. My friend Max from Goldrush is excited about his latest family of boats that he now has ready to go. He’s been working on a series of cartopper boats in a decent size and they are fast and light. → Read more…
 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… What do you do when you’ve got mixed voltage loads in your system? Such as a main drive battery of 48v and smaller loads such as radio, chart plotter and so on at 12 volts? The usual solution is to use a dc-dc converter to step down the voltage from 48v to 12v. You . . . → Read More: Mixed voltage loads and charging  Coming into Sydney heads—the city skyline visible to the right of the mother ship This is a followup to the story about the solar powered zodiac trip Claude and I did from Pittwater to Sydney a while back… I’ve now prepared a video of that trip for your enjoyment. Its posted on youtube and and available here on this page. The trip was an experiment to see how far we could go with a Torqeedo Travel 1003 assisted by solar power… → Read more…  Sienna charging the batteries in the sun Today I towed the Sienna out of the shed and into the sun to test the solar panels and the charging of the lithium batteries. This is the first time the batteries have been charged as a group and they need to be watched carefully for the first few cycles until they become balanced. → 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…  Looking from entry gate in coaming towards bow I’m now back at Mt Tamborine to finish the electrical installation. I know, I know! Its taking longer than expected to complete this boat. On the back of an envelope I estimated another 16 days to finish the electrical work and get her launched. Allowing for weekends and other projects being shoe-horned in it really means about a month till she’s done. → Read more…  Low cloud and passing rain scuds - and a lovely sunrise Overcast with passing light rain was not what we had in mind for a solar powered journey. Maybe I’d be rowing after all… We left on the mother ship about 5.30am and towed the solar powered zodiac to the start point at Station Beach, at the back of Palm Beach. I boarded the Zodiac at 7.45am and we started the log to track our progress. → Read more… |
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