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,…
Stock of some models has been in short supply but next week I’m expecting stock of Cruise 2, Base Travel, Travel 1003 and Ultralight. I have already promised some of these and so if you’re thinking of ordering soon, give me a call so you’re in the loop. Chris: 0409…
Is this the fastest Torqeedo powered boat? Powered by twin Cruise 4’s and running the speed prop it’s maximum speed so far is 26 km/hr. This carbon version of the Gold Rush Aggressor was built in Australia for Torqeedo’s boss Christoph Ballin by Max Buhner at the Gold Coast. It…
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…