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…