Lamoore tri-hull dinghy test
Lamoore yachts at Palm Beach make some stable easily driven dinghies and I’ve been keen to try one out with a Cruise 4 and a 1003 and today I got my chance…
Tag: Torqeedo Cruise 4
Whale watching by zodiac
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,…
The fastest Torqeedo?
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…
Blue book conformance test on Dash 750 trimaran
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…
Viking boat test
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…
See us at the Sydney Wooden Boat Festival
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…
Free shipping
Right from the start I’ve offered free delivery in the local area – and what I considered local is anywhere in the greater Sydney region. Thats quite an area, and clearly I was ok about spending time and money to do so. On the other hand, I had this odd…
Monkey-Me lithium battery installation
Tarci and Sue’s Wharram 38 is beginning to look schmick after its new paint job – and what friendly colours they’ve chosen. Well, Sue really. They have some really innovative plans with this boat including being able to easily beach her which will make the entire coast their cruising ground—not…