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By chris, on October 8th, 2010
 Rob's Viking boat at work at Cameron's Marina This is Rob Tearne’s own boat that he built about 10 years ago and has been used as an every day knockabout workboat ever since. When it was about 5 years old he added another 7 ft in the middle so now she’s 25ft long.
Its a traditional scandinavian design rowing boat, and which I think makes an ideal candidate for electric propulsion. Rowing boats by nature have limited power of the human rower, and through generations of incremental improvement the design have evolved to be easily driven hull shapes. → Read more…
By chris, on October 2nd, 2010
 Nice looking vessel huh? The Classic and Wooden Boat Festival will be held on the weekend of 16 and 17 October and I’ll be there with Ian Souter’s Viking style rowing boat Se Upp. We’ll have a Travel 1003 on this boat and its builder, Rob Tearne, will be doing rowing demonstrations of this traditional scandinavian design.
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By chris, on September 28th, 2010
Which propeller should you use on the 1003? Did you even know that you have a choice?
The standard prop that comes with the 1003 is a two-bladed one that is optimised for speed and power for the vessel that Torqeedo expects most users to have. Thats a result of their market research and . . . → Read More: Propeller trials on SeaEagle kayak
By chris, on September 5th, 2010
 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…
By chris, on September 2nd, 2010
A close encounter with a rock has brought an unexpected benefit for David on his Sea Eagle inflatable kayak. (See the earlier post for details of his setup.) The standard two-bladed prop of the 1003 was damaged irretrievably and as we had a three bladed prop available (as standard on the 801) Malcolm set . . . → Read More: Faster with three-bladed prop
By chris, on September 1st, 2010
Ramón, Araceli, Alonso and Hector at Brown Lake
These visitors from Universidad Tecnologica De La Zona Metropolitana De Guadalajara are researching alternative means of propulsion for fisherman on a fresh water lake that is the water supply for a Mexican city. The fishermen now use petrol outboards and soon they may longer be . . . → Read More: Travel 1003 and 801 on Old Town Canoe
By chris, on August 27th, 2010
 Ramón, Araceli, Alonso and Hector at Brown Lake What will we call the boat?
Well, we’re here on Brown Lake at Straddie and we’re worried about the Bunyip that Pete has warned us about so if we name it after him surely he’ll leave us alone…
But it needs two names. What about Green Bunyip because the research work is green and the boat is green? → Read more…
By chris, on August 16th, 2010
Report on Torqeedo 1003 Trial on Payne 7 keelboat
Trial installation
The motor we used for the test is a Travel 1003 which I use on my dinghy to get to and from my boat and for doing demonstrations such as this. I’ve had this one for about two months and its been used . . . → Read More: Torqeedo 1003 trial on Payne 7
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