Planet Solar breaks world record as epic journey ends today
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Planet Solar set to make yachting history :
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Planet Solar Tûranor will break a world record today, 4 May, when
she arrives in Hercule Harbour, Monaco
at lunchtime, as the first solar vessel to circumnavigate the globe.
The journey has taken her 585 days, having set off from Monaco on 27 September 2010, and it has been undertaken purely by the power of the sun. Her 537m² solar panels have powered six lithium-ion batteries, come rain or shine, to complete the mission.
Her arrival will be filmed live and broadcast on the yacht’s site here at 2.00pm today.
Raphaël Domjan and Expedition Leader of Planet Solar, wrote on the website logbook yesterday on leaving Corsica for Monaco:
“We leave Corsica under a pure blue sky and surrounded by white and snowy summits. It seems that Nature and the sun have decided to give us the most beautiful day of our adventure as well as a record.
"Indeed, today we have yielded 661kWh, this is the absolute record since the start of this world tour. Our solar ship must also be feeling that we are getting close…it is as impatient as we are and, probably as impatient as all the people waiting for us in Monaco.”
The journey has taken her 585 days, having set off from Monaco on 27 September 2010, and it has been undertaken purely by the power of the sun. Her 537m² solar panels have powered six lithium-ion batteries, come rain or shine, to complete the mission.
Her arrival will be filmed live and broadcast on the yacht’s site here at 2.00pm today.
Raphaël Domjan and Expedition Leader of Planet Solar, wrote on the website logbook yesterday on leaving Corsica for Monaco:
“We leave Corsica under a pure blue sky and surrounded by white and snowy summits. It seems that Nature and the sun have decided to give us the most beautiful day of our adventure as well as a record.
"Indeed, today we have yielded 661kWh, this is the absolute record since the start of this world tour. Our solar ship must also be feeling that we are getting close…it is as impatient as we are and, probably as impatient as all the people waiting for us in Monaco.”
Planet Solar leaving
Calvi, Corsica yesterday
The entire adventure has
been documented daily by the Swiss leader and his crew on their website
logbook, relaying its trials and tribulations to followers and fans everywhere.
The logbook has recorded broken propellors, which the crew had to repair themselves
as storms raged, sunless days where the distance travelled registered ‘0
Nautical km’ and close encounters with volcanic islands and rare wildlife.
The achievement is
astounding in itself but this is not what the owner Immo Stroher and Domjan,
whose joint dream it was to build Tûranor, want the world to take note of.
Speaking last year, mid voyage, to The
Superyacht Report, Stroher said the
point is Tûranor is a statement to the world on the power of solar energy:
“I see the necessity and urgency of changing how we source energy, so we look at getting energy from sources other than fossil fuels.
"In my opinion, the best source is the original and most native – the sun itself. Turanor is meant to showcase why solar power is a good idea.”
“I see the necessity and urgency of changing how we source energy, so we look at getting energy from sources other than fossil fuels.
"In my opinion, the best source is the original and most native – the sun itself. Turanor is meant to showcase why solar power is a good idea.”
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