My beautiful solar boat, Stillness, is now for sale sold. We used to have her on the Noosa River where she was rented out at Noosaville. Since I’ve moved to Samford with my extended family, she’s also been moved here and it turns out not be close enough to the…
Since launch three years ago, our solar boat, Stillness, has never been plugged in to the grid and has easily got all the power she needs from the solar panels on the roof. She quite regularly does the trip to Lake Cootharaba and typically at the end of the day…
Kathryn and Stephen’s solar boat trip to Lake Cootharaba had more excitement that they bargained for… They left from Noosa Marina and headed for Lake Cootharaba for a six hour gentle boat trip. On the return journey the bushfire came right to the river bank. Flaming embers allowed the fire…
Its been a while since I wrote about the solar boat… it has been with the builder since October and has recently been delivered with its survey papers, which means it will be available for hire fairly soon. The boat is currently at Monty’s boatyard for some modifications to include…
Come and see the Sienna solar boat at King George Square in Brisbane this Saturday 28th October as part of the National Electric Vehicle Festival. This festival is part of the National Electric Vehicle Convention and you can see more details of this at the website here.
The Caboolture River is a quiet picturesque river not far from Brisbane which offers a delightful cruise for a solar boat.
I’ll write more about this soon, but to be going on with, here is a link to a video of the launching of Stillness
Today I towed the Sienna out of the shed and into the sun to test the solar panels and the charging of the lithium batteries. This is the first time the batteries have been charged as a group and they need to be watched carefully for the first few cycles…
I’m now back at Mt Tamborine to finish the electrical installation. I know, I know! Its taking longer than expected to complete this boat. On the back of an envelope I estimated another 16 days to finish the electrical work and get her launched. Allowing for weekends and other projects…
This project has been occupying my attention since March when I somewhat spontaneously decided to go ahead with it. I had been looking at various boats with an eye to finding one suitable for rental, but I hadn’t seen anything I liked when my friend Claude (Torqeedo Australia) told me…