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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…  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…  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…  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… Interested in Torqeedoes? You’ve come to the right place. We stock Australia’s widest range of Torqeedo electric outboards and offer the technical backup to help you best choose the Torqeedo and batteries to suit your vessel. → 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…  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… 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…  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… |
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