If anything goes wrong with your Torqeedo you can send it here to be repaired by a Torqeedo authorised technician. Whether it is a warranty claim or if it is damage by adventure (doesn’t that sound better than mis-adventure?) we can fix it for you. We now have a small range of spare parts, and will have a more parts coming soon.. → Read more…
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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… 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…  Plug used for Sienna mould The Sienna will be an easily driven boat and so we don’t expect to need a lot of power to have her at 5 knots. My guess is that her performance would be similar to the Dash 750 and if we look at the power curve for that boat it shows the power needed for at 5 knots is 2000 watts (into the wind). That means we can use a Cruise 2 and at full power of 2000 watts we can expect 5 to 5.5 knots. And in fact probably a bit more because the Torqeedo motors tend to run at slightly above their rating when given full power. For example my Cruise 4 at full power shows 5300 watts on some occasions, and so we could expect up to 2600 watts could be available from a Cruise 2. → Read more… Here’s some pics of Turanor in Brisbane. → Read more… |
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