Solar Craft I: Das erste Solarboot der Geschichte, entworfen 1974 von Alan T. Freeman in England. Geschenk des Museums von Basildon, England.
Solar Craft: The first solar boat (1974)
The first known solar boat - Solar Craft I - dates back to 1974 and was the prototype of the Englishman Alan T. Freeman. Solar Craft I is a small catamaran measuring 2.5 meters in length. Equipped with a removable rudder and a propeller powered either by pedals or by the solar cells, Solar Craft I can reach a top speed of 6 km/h using solar energy alone. Alan T. Freeman would go on to develop other solar-powered devices in the 1970s and 1980s, including a solar-powered bicycle and a solar-powered car, the first to be officially registered in England.
The solar boat
Solar energy enables one quiet, effortless and from the wind unadependent Ride across the water. Above all, however, it can be stored and avoids it from the Weather conditions completely to be dependent on solar energy. The first boat to use solar energy was Solar Craft I (1974), designed in England by Alan T. Freeman. In the 1980s had a solar boat had great enthusiasm in Switzerland and Germany andarousedt. It is the Japanese Kenichi Horie who made the first achievement in solar navigation. In 1985, he made the first major solar-powered crossing by sailing between Hawaii and Japan. However, Kenichi Horie is best known for having made the first solar-powered crossing in 1996. complete crossing of the Pacific Ocean with a solar boate. The first crossing of the Atlantic was between 2006 and 2007 by the Sun21, a Swiss solar boat. The next big challenge was the round-the-world trip, which carried out by PlanetSolar between 2010 and 2012.was.
