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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… 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… 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… David and Yukiko at Pittwater in their new inflatable kayak I’d like to introduce David and Yukiko in their new inflatable Sea Eagle kayak with the Torqeedo Travel 1003 on the transom. Its a nice stable design and the catamaran configuration makes it ideally suited to fitting an outboard with the prop between . . . → Read More: Catamaran kayak |
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