Check out the recent article about Moonwave by Torqeedo: Silent and sustainable – Torqeedo’s Deep Blue Hybrid system optimizes luxury catamarans [click on the link] It also comes with a video:
I got the chance to upload some pictures of Moonwave’s new interior and I have started updating our website as well. Here are some new pictures: Moonwave Layout More pictures and blog entries to come soon – keep on checking in…
Here are some pictures from our recent trip to Maine in July 2018 – it’s sometimes a bit tricky to cruise there [lobster traps & fog] but definitively worth it – beautiful landscape and shorelines, nice people, interesting boats, great food [seafood & blueber
After our trips from Brittany, France to Canaries, Spain, crossing the Atlantic, Caribbean to Bahamas and Bahamas to North America in less than two months – we are now back on the US East Coast. Our first stop was Norfolk in Virginia and than we entered the beautiful Chesapeake
It was time to upgrade the Electronics package on Moonwave as it has been a while since B&G stopped software upgrades for their H3000 system. This time, we installed a full B&G H5000 package with integrating some of the original equipment like the radar aft and other. Some of
Moonwave got some new features during her latest refit and as mentioned in one of my last posts – Moonwave will now be easily distinguished by her new Daggerboards. First we need to give you a short background information about the original “board” set-up on board Moonwave. We w
Moonwave Transatlantic Crossing – a bit of celestial navigation Moonwave is equipped with high tech electronics of the latest generation – B&G H5000 as well as MaxSea and Adrena on a laptop computer. And for sure there are a couple of backup GPS receivers and also apps
Moonwave’s second transatlantic crossing is in the books – the first time East to West. We had a good passage but next time if possible will stick to a normal “schedule” with departure from the Canary Islands between Nov to Feb. We left Lanzarote a bit “out of season” for transa
As mentioned in one of my previous posts [Moonwave – Deep Blue Hybrid System] – it was part of refit to get Moonwave equipped with a serious amount of solar panels. In the last years the solar panels made huge performance progress and the solar cells themselves got lighter
Moonwave – Electric Propulsion & Hybrid System After years of development and working close with the engineers from Torqeedo by sharing our needs and requirements for Moonwave – we now have the complete Deep Blue Hybrid System installed on board. We had already several