28th Sept: Comparison of Electric Outboards
Following discussions on the Swallow Boats Association Forum and out of curiosity, I tried a bollard pull comparison of the Torqeedo 1003S and the Minn-Kota...
September: "First Summer ending!" / 2014 / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 28/09/2014 · Last modified 16/08/2017
Following discussions on the Swallow Boats Association Forum and out of curiosity, I tried a bollard pull comparison of the Torqeedo 1003S and the Minn-Kota...
October: "Summer's Ended" / 2014 / Diary Entry
by Peter Taylor · Published 12/10/2014 · Last modified 16/08/2017
No sailing but a busy week! On the 6th Simon Crawford from Marineware came (at Matt’s request) to look at the small blisters in the...
October: "Summer's Ended" / 2014 / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 22/10/2014 · Last modified 16/08/2017
The weather is making me realise how spoilt we were during the summer. Now almost every day mentions force 7 in the forecast and I’ve...
October: "Summer's Ended" / 2014 / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 24/10/2014 · Last modified 09/08/2018
As a contribution to discussions on the Swallow Boats Association forum, today I did some measurements of power consumption for my the Minn-Kota Rip Tide...
October: "Summer's Ended" / Sailing Log (2014) / 2014
by Peter Taylor · Published 25/10/2014 · Last modified 16/08/2017
A single tide sail to hamble Spit and back (16nm) on a Saturday – so got mixed up with dinghy races!
A single tide sail to hamble Spit and back (16nm) on a Saturday – so got mixed up with dinghy races!
October: "Summer's Ended" / 2014 / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 25/10/2014 · Last modified 16/08/2017
Sailing down Southampton Water I had the first actual use of the new Ballast pump (see September 22nd entry. As expected, a great success. No...
October: "Summer's Ended" / Sailing Log (2014) / 2014
by Peter Taylor · Published 30/10/2014 · Last modified 17/08/2017
I was planning to go to Newtown River but lack of wind and electrics problems meant I only got as far as Bald Head! (17nm).
I was planning to go to Newtown River but lack of wind and electrics problems meant I only got as far as Bald Head! (17nm).
October: "Summer's Ended" / 2014 / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 30/10/2014 · Last modified 17/08/2017
The incident today when I lost power to the ballast pump and Tiller Pilot made me think about the best way to have the electrics...