Hi Dan,
I would first recommend that you do a search of the messages on this Yahoo group for "Torqeedo". There have been countless posts concerning people's first hand experiences with a variety of the Torqeedo products.
That said, I own a Torqeedo Travel 801, replacing a Tohatsu 2hp outboard for my dinghy. Like I have stated here many times, it has met most of my expectations, the only thing that I didn't expect was how fast I could run it to empty at full throttle. Of ccourse the answer there is use the speed control wisely. I just spent another weekend anchored on the backside of Catalina Island, and was able to perform all of our shore duty and came back with about 50% of my charge. If I remember correctly, I bought the Torqeedo in 2008, I haven't had any problems to date.
A number of multihull racers (Multi 23 trimarans) in my marina have switched to Torqeedo 1003s to get in and out of their slips and to the start line. They all report that the motor is a better answer than the typical 3.5hp IC outboard, again taking range as a compromise. The Multi 23 that participated in the race to Catalina this last weekend hadd to switch back to his little Honda outboard to meet the safety requirements of the race rules (20nm of motoring at square root of waterline). But he switched back to his Torqeedo as soon as he got back to the marina.
Fair winds,
Eric
Marina del Rey, CA
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> Any feedback on the torqueedo electric outboards?
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