1st Solar Powered Boat to Cross the Atlantic
Switzerland’s MW-Line company has been busy commercializing the use of solar power with a range of environmentally friendly solar catamarans for tourism operations, where quietness and non-carbon fuel are major pluses. Now the sun is shining in private leisure boat market.
Sun21 the 14-metre (46 feet) catamaran, the first boat to cross the Atlantic on solar power alone, was in fact a commercially available MW-Line Aquabus C60 – which has a 60 passenger rating.
Its five-man Swiss crew took less than a month for the Atlantic crossing from the Canary Islands to the Bahamas.
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July 2nd, 2007 at 7:15 am
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