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Solar-Powered Boat Completes 13000 Kilometer Journey

Swiss-made catamaran "Sun21" which becomes the first solar-powered boat to cross the Atlantic approaches Manhattan, 08 May 2007 in New York, at the end of its journey. The boat left Basel, north of Switzerland, 16 October 2006. For this "historical" journey, the Swiss association "Transatlantic21" aimed at entering the Guinness Book of records. However the goal was first to show the potential of solar technology and to raise awareness on the possibility of solar navigation in open sea. Photo courtesy AFP.
by Staff Writers
 Geneva (AFP) Feb 3, 2007
 An innovative Swiss catamaran has arrived in New York after a 13,000 kilometre (8,000 miles) journey that included the first ever Atlantic crossing by a solar-powered boat, the owners said Wednesday. Sun21 and its five crew docked in New York late Tuesday, five months after leaving the souther Spanish port of Chipiona near Cadiz to demonstrate the value of solar power for maritime use, the Transatlantic 21 partnership said on its website.

"Sun21 serves as the shining example of clean energy applications in practice," said skipper Michel Thonney. "It has been my distinct pleasure to be a part of the crew and to prove we don't need oil to cross oceans," he added.

The 60 square metres (646 square feet) of solar panels that topped the experimental vessel allowed it to cover up to 200 kilometres (125 miles) a day, at speeds equivalent to those achieved by everyday sailing yachts.

The partnership said that out of all means of transport solar power was best suited to shipping and boats, and raised the prospect of fleets of cargo ships using renewable energy.

The 14 metre (16 foot) vessel's voyage included crossing the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to Martinique, a leg which was completed on February 2.

The vessel symbolically followed the historic 5,000 kilometre route sailed by explorer Christopher Columbus during the first known transatlantic voyage in the 15th century.

It then headed north to New York via stopovers in several Caribbean islands and Miami, arriving on schedule in Manhattan.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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