Technical details of projects or products
In just a few days a Torqeedo powered solar canoe will embark on a trip down the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. If the weather is right they plan to leave on 16th June to journey from Chicago to New Orleans in a trimaran canoe of 22ft.
I have long suspected that a hydrofoil based craft would be the ideal platform to achieve nice balance of speed and range with Cruise 4 and such a craft has been displayed at Internatica recently. They claim a top speed of 22 knots and a range of 100km. Known as…
By trading in your old outboard we might be able to knock a few hundred dollars off the price of a new Torqeedo. My buddy Malcolm who helps out around here when I’m out of town may be able to buy your old outboard. He has been able to help…
If you’re familiar with the Torqeedo world you’ll know of Goldrush boats as the guys that designed and built the carbon Aggressor—the fast black boat from the front cover of the 2011 Torqeedo catalogue, and from the Cruise pages of this years catalogue. My friend Max from Goldrush is excited…
If anything goes wrong with your Torqeedo you can send it here to be repaired by a Torqeedo authorised technician. Whether it is a warranty claim or if it is damage by adventure (doesn’t that sound better than mis-adventure?) we can fix it for you. We now have a small…
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.
What do you do when you’ve got mixed voltage loads in your system? Such as a main drive battery of 48v and smaller loads such as radio, chart plotter and so on at 12 volts? The usual solution is to use a dc-dc converter to step down the voltage from…
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…
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 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.