Tag: dinghy motors

Take the Poll — What’s the Ideal Tender Outboard?

| August 12, 2010 | 3 Comments
Take the Poll — What’s the Ideal Tender Outboard?

If you could have the perfect outboard for your dinghy or tender, what would it be?  A diesel perhaps, because you’re already carrying hundreds or thousands of gallons of that fuel and because looking for and storing gasoline is such a pain in the neck, not to mention dangerous? I’ve long thought, for example, that [...]

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Torqeedo Adds More Electric Outboards

| February 4, 2010 | 0 Comments
Torqeedo Adds More Electric Outboards

  Torqeedo keeps adding new models to its line of electric outboards. The latest is the Travel series with two new units offering power equivalent to 1.5 hp and 3 hp, respectively. The Travel 503 and Travel 1003 not only offer more power than their predecessors but are tougher and are completely waterproof to IP67 [...]

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Torqeedo Ups the Horsepower for Electric Outboard

| September 2, 2009 | 0 Comments
Torqeedo Ups the Horsepower for Electric Outboard

Earlier this year I wrote a Wish List item about the advantages of a single, common fuel for all marine engines; the issue being the need to carry gasoline for a tender wile operating an otherwise diesel-powered boat.  There may be another option and that is the one provided by Torqeedo, manufacturer of an innovative [...]

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