Now that The Torqeedo Shop has been selling and servicing Torqeedo outboards for few years we’re in a good position to suggest how best to care for your outboard and what servicing needs to be considered to keep it in tip top shape.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
Overcast with passing light rain was not what we had in mind for a solar powered journey. Maybe I’d be rowing after all… We left on the mother ship about 5.30am and towed the solar powered zodiac to the start point at Station Beach, at the back of Palm Beach.…