Solar Venturer

This blog is to try to document the progress, decisions, photos, ideas, musings, tasks and associated files in the endeavor to build, test and launch a craft that can motor, unaided, from Sydney to New Zealand The blog entries are organised from the latest at the top to earliest at the bottom 20th January 2019 I took the boat to Narrabeen Lagoon to test out all components and functions. The radio network that worked fine the day before refused to work on the day. The first test was aborted due to seaweed fouling both propellers. Once this was cleared, the boat was started and sent off. It reached the first waypoint and turned for the second. It then developed a problem, possibly with one of the motors, that prevented it from turning left. this caused it to run in circles, attempting to reach the waypoint. A chase boat on standby in case of problems turned off the motors and returned the boat to shore This completes the prototype blog. Since I have already successfully