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…
Seems like I have been banging on about stock shortage for too long now and so its time to talk about batteries instead. Steve Williams has just installed an Electroprop 5kw motor powered by a pair of Torqeedo Power 26-104 batteries on Echo, and Endeavour 26. Steve sails out of…
Col Campey chose a harryproa because of the many practical advantages they offer over other multihulls, and so its no surprise that he has chosen twin Cruise 4 outboards because of the practical advantages they offer over regular petrol outboards. Col’s Rare Bird is a 50ft proa designed by Rob…
We now have a shipment of new stock including some of the new Cruise Tiller models. Some of these have been sold already so if you are interested in one of these new models please drop me a line on the enquiry page. I doubt I will get chance to…
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…
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.
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…
The Sienna will be an easily driven boat and so we don’t expect to need a lot of power to have her at 5 knots. My guess is that her performance would be similar to the Dash 750 and if we look at the power curve for that boat it…
Torqeedo provides state-of-the-art batteries for electric boat drives. The latest release raises the bar to new levels of safety and charge/discharge management. For boat drives, the Torqeedo Power batteries represent an enormous increase in performance compared to conventional battery systems. Here are six important features of Torqeedo Power:
Whew! Its quite a relief to have stock of most items. Since setting up shop six months ago its been difficult to get stock. Now for the first time we have at least one of most products and a handful of the popular items such as Travel 1003 S, and…