3rd May: Torqeedo Outboard trouble – a day at anchor! (~4nm)
Got up at 0400 to catch the ebbing tide but before leaving jetty at about 0510 I knocked my cup of tea off the jetty...
May 2014: I finally gave up on trying to use the electric outboard; it was limiting my sailing too much. When it broke down that was the final straw!
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / Diary Entry
by Peter Taylor · Published 03/05/2014 · Last modified 15/08/2017
Got up at 0400 to catch the ebbing tide but before leaving jetty at about 0510 I knocked my cup of tea off the jetty...
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 05/05/2014 · Last modified 15/08/2017
I took the propeller off the Torqeedo outboard today. With the nut off, removing the propeller was still a struggle and in the end I...
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / Diary Entry
by Peter Taylor · Published 05/05/2014 · Last modified 15/08/2017
Earlier in the day (before taking the outboard apart), at low tide I walked around Chessel Bay which is a nature reserve. Below is a...
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 15/05/2014 · Last modified 15/08/2017
New Outboard: The weather over the weekend was force 7’s off and on which started me thinking about rough weather options. As a result, I...
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / Diary Entry
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/05/2014 · Last modified 15/08/2017
With the tide in and the weather fair I showed Seatern off to two groups of friends on Thursday and Friday afternoons. On the Friday...
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 17/05/2014 · Last modified 15/08/2017
The Tohatsu manual says that the motor can use fuel with up to 10% added alcohol. Bio-ethanol (similar to what I use in my spirit...
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / Diary Entry
by Peter Taylor · Published 18/05/2014 · Last modified 15/08/2017
The new outboard needs running in so lowered the masts and went up the river to Woodmill (end of the tidal river). Even on low...
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / Sailing Log (2014)
by Peter Taylor · Published 19/05/2014 · Last modified 30/08/2017
Day sail during which I motored to the Isle of Wight to run in my new Tohatsu outboard and sailed back.
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / Diary Entry
by Peter Taylor · Published 21/05/2014 · Last modified 15/08/2017
I woke up this morning on Seatern to find that the world had disappeared! I thought the window was steamed up (which it was) but...
May: "New Outboard" / 2014 / Diary Entry
by Peter Taylor · Published 31/05/2014 · Last modified 15/08/2017
I’ve reached the point where the Tohatsu needs to be used at full throttle as part of it’s “running in” so, not wishing to make...