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8th May 2007: "sun21" makes historic arrival in New York
City! Using solar power only, the catamaran "sun21" undertook the first motorized crossing of the Atlantic with solar power to promote the great potential of this technology for ocean navigation. The "sun21" arrived in New York City on 8 May 2007, 3 pm, having covered about 7000 sea miles. |
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| The sun21 completes the first transatlantic crossing by a solar
powered boat
sun21, the solar powered catamaran developed and sponsored by the
Swiss transatlantic21 Association made its historic arrival into
New York?s North Cove Marina at 3:00pm today. On this beautiful
day the "sun21" crew was happy to have reached their final
destination safely.
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| "sun21" heading to New York | On the 3rd April 2007, the "sun21" set about completing
the last stage of its journey to New York, where the catamaran is
due to arrive on 8 May 2007, 3 PM. The solar boat will travel on the
"Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway", an inland water path which
stretches along the coast of the Atlantic from Key West (Florida)
to Boston. * Read blog report by the crew: http://www.transatlantic21.org/home/blog-page/blog-detail/?tx_x4eblogdisplay_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=76&cHash=0c25356654 At 11 o’clock AM (local time), on the 2nd April 2007, the
mayor of Miami, Manuel A. Diaz, received the crew of the "sun21"
in the Miami Yacht Club. During a formal ceremony aboard the ship,
he handed them the "Key of the City" and welcomed the
Atlantic crossers officially to America. Already on the 29th May
2007 at around 3:30 PM (local time), the solar boat had reached
the American mainland, thus travelling other 1400 nautical miles.
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| March 29, 2007 at 3.30 pm. | After another leg of 1'400 nautical miles, we reached Miami on March 29, 2007 at 3.30 pm. We were welcomed and guided by the Miami Yacht Club people to our privileged docking place | ||
| Salem Mohamed | Salem Mohamed as an Egyptian where we have 365 day sun, I dream in Nil through Luxor and Aswan we have that boot with sun energy, thanx for all peoples they do that wounderful work, thanx for all peoples they help |
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| "The Storm" of Shakespeare | We are leaving with a heavy heart the Creole islands. The more
we came to the North the more we returned to our "Western"
world, and the majority of the black people we encountered here were
in serving positions - different from the encounters we had before
on the smaller islands. The prominent black man of letters and politician,
Aimé Césaire, Deputy Mayor in Martinique, let speak
the black protagonist Caliban to the white master and landowner Prospero
in a drama following "The Storm" of Shakespeare (1st act,
2nd scene):
"My mother? the Earth? You believe that is Earth is a dead thing? One disfigures her, one soils her, one stamp on her with the foot of the conqueror. I, for my part, respect her?She lives? Snake! Rain! Lightening! I encounter her everywhere: In the eye of the sea tide that looks at me". |
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February 2, 2007 Today "sun21", the solar powered catamaran developed and sponsored by the Swiss Transatlantic21 Association, arrived in the harbour of Le Marin, Martinique. The arrival at 3 pm local time is an historic feat and makes "sun21" the first motorized vessel to cross the Atlantic without using a drop of fuel. The achievement serves as a powerful example of responsible energy use in practice. It also is impressive evidence of the suitability of solar technology for high-sea voyages. "sun21" will travel on with its final destination being New York this May. The arrival in Martinique coincides with the alarming publication of the United Nations? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth assessment report "Climate Change 2007," which asserts climate change is "very likely" man-made. The ship is thus, in the words of crew member Martin Vosseler, "sending a clear signal about the arrival of the age of solar power". |
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| On October 16, 2006, "sun21" was christened at the Rhine harbour of Basel (Switzerland) by current Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey. The solar-powered catamaran left continental Europe on December 3, 2006 from Chipiona Spain. Following Christopher Columbus? historic route, it subsequently covered around 3,500 nautical miles (6,400 kilometers) to the island of Martinique. The crossing to the Caribbean took 63 days, including stop-overs in Casablanca (Morocco) and on the Canary Islands. "sun21" covered the roughly 5,000 kilometres from Las Palmas to Martinique in a mere 30 days. | |||
| transatlantic21 | Ideal weather conditions allowed "sun21" to travel up
to 107 nautical miles a day, as much as sailing boats of a similar
size would do. On days of complete calm the solar boat travelled up
to 83 nautical miles (or 150 kilometers). Even with covered skies,
the solar panels on the vessel?s rooftop provided enough energy to
almost keep the boat's batteries fully charged. The technology also
provided other advantages: "Propulsion is quiet and easy on the
environment. There's hardly any vibration, the solar panels provide
us with shade and, unlike a sailing boat, we make good headway even
when there's no wind," writes crewmember Beat von Scarpatetti
in his blog on www.transatlantic21.org.
Half of the 7,000+ nautical miles from Seville to New York have
now been covered. The next ports of call will be the Caribbean islands
of Dominica, Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe and St. Martin, and then
Miami, USA. |
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