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 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…  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…  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…  Tim's fishing boat lying alongside Eden wharf The first rays of the sun were glinting on the fishing boats alongside the Eden wharf while I dawdled over breakfast at the cafe at the head of the jetty. I’d arrived early and was waiting for Tim Crane, a fisherman here at Eden who is wondering, like me, whether a Cruise 4 could drive his 8 tonne fishing boat at trolling speed. I don’t know much about fishing, and the idea of trolling was connected with freshwater bass fisherman who use small electric motors for manouvring small fishing punts at low speed. And come to think of it, I know a few cruising yachties who occasionally troll for dinner by trailing a line when lazing along at 3 or 4 knots. But the notion that professional fisherman use trolling to make a living was not something I knew about. → Read more…  Lionel amidships and steering with the offset tiller I’ve been wanting to try out a Walker Bay dinghy—they claim to be easily rowed and that should augur well for use with a Travel 1003. You’ll see we also trial a extension/offset device for the tiller which we borrowed from David who you may remember from the Sea-eagle kayak installation. → Read more…  Scott and his son in the Quintrex 3.7 on first trial A couple of weeks ago I took a Cruise 4 to Denjera Dam in the Nowra hinterland for some Bass fishermen to try it on their boats. Danjera is a water supply dam and its only permissable to use electric outboards (or row!). This was arranged by an existing customer, Ed, who has a Base Travel on his punt and some of the other guys have become interested in checking out the other motors as well. → Read more… Looking for a slipway that can haul Current Sunshine I went exploring around the southern end of Pittwater. With a Travel 1003 on a Zodiac I can ghost along at rowing speed all day. A measely 50 watts of power gives me about 3km/hr which is gentle travling for sure but I can do it for 8 hours on the one battery. → Read more…  Buster supervising the trials... Lamoore yachts at Palm Beach make some stable easily driven dinghies and I’ve been keen to try one out with a Cruise 4 and a 1003 and today I got my chance… → Read more… My friend Deb was visiting and it felt like whale watching my be a nice adventure for a Sunday morning. Because Current Sunshine is incapacitated just now we had to take the Zodiac. So I loaded it up with four optima batteries to power the Cruise 4, a few apples, water and went in search of humpbacks. → Read more… The Blue book is the yacht racing rule book and it stipulates windward performance under power. And the requirement is that the boat can make the nominated speed into 12 knots of headwind.  Dash 750 - stock photo from Corsair Waterline length (Lw) is the basis of the calculation and for the Dash 750 it is 7.32 and so that works out at 1.8 x √7.32 = 4.8 knots. This afternoon the we have a nice breeze of 10-12 knots so its just what we need for this test. → Read more… |
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