results of performance and usability trials on various boats
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. Waterline length (Lw) is the basis of the calculation and for the Dash 750 it is 7.32…
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…
The Classic and Wooden Boat Festival will be held on the weekend of 16 and 17 October and I’ll be there with Ian Souter’s Viking style rowing boat Se Upp. We’ll have a Travel 1003 on this boat and its builder, Rob Tearne, will be doing rowing demonstrations of this…
Which propeller should you use on the 1003? Did you even know that you have a choice? The standard prop that comes with the 1003 is a two-bladed one that is optimised for speed and power for the vessel that Torqeedo expects most users to have. Thats a result of…
You’ll be intrigued as me by the hydraulic steering that David has set up on his SeaEagle kayak and how we combined it with the remote throttle to make a really user friendly rig. As well we’ve done more comprehensive propeller comparisons and I’ll have some graphs to show later.…
A close encounter with a rock has brought an unexpected benefit for David on his Sea Eagle inflatable kayak. (See the earlier post for details of his setup.) The standard two-bladed prop of the 1003 was damaged irretrievably and as we had a three bladed prop available (as standard on…
These visitors from Universidad Tecnologica De La Zona Metropolitana De Guadalajara are researching alternative means of propulsion for fisherman on a fresh water lake that is the water supply for a Mexican city. The fishermen now use petrol outboards and soon they may longer be permitted to use them because…
What will we call the boat? Well, we’re here on Brown Lake at Straddie and we’re worried about the Bunyip that Pete has warned us about so if we name it after him surely he’ll leave us alone… But it needs two names. What about Green Bunyip because the research…
Report on Torqeedo 1003 Trial on Payne 7 keelboat Trial installation The motor we used for the test is a Travel 1003 which I use on my dinghy to get to and from my boat and for doing demonstrations such as this. I’ve had this one for about two months…