Tag: renewable energy
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Adapting to sailing & cruising with Electric Propulsion.
Most of the comments I receive about my travels with electric drive have been really positive. However I do get the odd doubter, who are also so important to this blog. I converted Ocean Strider to direct electric drive, specifically for circumnavigating the planet. It was a nerve racking time for me. There were so…
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Electric propulsion! It’s light years ahead.
Renewable energy powering our sailing journeys. Defective paint on my electric, Torqeedo Travel 1103 outboard, means I’m travelling to the dinghy dock using a borrowed 2 stroke outboard motor. While I’m commuting, I have sudden thought. Fossil fuel propulsion for sail boats and dinghy’s, should already be in the history books and combustion engines slowly…
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Learning to sail with electric propulsion.
Nail-biting nerves to total confidence after 6,000 miles onboard Ocean Strider. How it happened! We’re well underway on our global circumnavigation and there’s no turning back! We’d upgraded Ocean Strider inside and out, including removing the Diesel engine and fitting Lynch Marlin 8 kilowatt electric propulsion. Changing back to diesel crossed my mind on several…
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The reasons I chose electric motors over Diesel engines, and the wonders of renewable energy.
To the interested! The reasons I wouldn’t go back to diesel power on Ocean Strider. I started this journey with the intention to sail, and I’m not saying there haven’t been times when I would just like to get to my destination faster. But the priority of saving power in the batteries has made me…
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The accurate information available for Electric Propulsion
This is for the sailers out there, considering owning a boat with an electric auxiliary engine. I’ve sailed my boat Ocean Strider 6,000 miles, and the auxiliary drive is an electric engine. In my humble opinion, the information available when you are sailing a boat with an electric auxiliary engine and battery monitor is so…
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6,000 trouble free nautical miles on board Ocean Strider, our liveaboard Cobra 1050 electric powered sailing yacht.
The Linch Marlin electric drive, installed on Ocean Strider.
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My guide charging under sail and amps used at 4 kts.
Electric drives and charging whilst we sail. Recharging your batteries for FREE. Electric drives, engines, propulsion. Whatever you want to call them, are the future. Why pay tax and give money to the oil companies, they don’t care about anything but profit!!! Made in the UK. A Lynch Marlin, 7kw, 48v. Click HERE for more…
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Portsmouth Harbour, Dominica travel information. Part 1
A stunning panoramic view of North Dominica as we sail toward her from Marie Galante
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Marie Galante, Grand Bourg Travel Information
Showing the town side of Grand Bourg Harbour and Marina.
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Pointe a Pitre in Guadalupe. Tavel Information.
The Graffiti in Pointe a Pitre is incredible. The image is showing a painting of a black local woman and colorful writing on a wall.
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