Practical Boat Owner

Tried & Tested

TEMO electric outboard

It was on a grey day following one of the biggest storms of February that I met David Ellis from Marine Components International at my local yacht club on Southampton Water, with a shiny new dinghy and a TEMO 2hp-equivalent electric outboard for testing.

After we assembled the dinghy, which took about 10 minutes, the stick-like outboard was pulled out of its nicely constructed bag and offered up to the dinghy transom. The outboard bracket can be permanently bolted onto your transom, or they make a detachable bracket for use on different dinghies.

This TEMO unlike any conventional outboard, electric or petrol, that we’ve seen before and

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