Hi Bajan, Actually I mis-spoke on the tanks. There are three 90 liter diesel tanks and three 90 liter fresh water tanks. One thing I particularly...
Hi Bajansailor, thanks for the quick reply. I looked for a serial number for the boat but found none. I think it may have been a custom build. She...
Identification needed I hope to identify who built my power cat, Koru. From what I understand it was built in 2001 in Whangerei, NZ, but that...
Anyone know of a dinghy that can be docked at your boat and then come to you to pick you up on shore at the push of a button? Its getting hard to...
I am purchasing a 40' foot power cat and want to put it on hardstand in Whangarei to do modifications. It is currently on a mooring in Wyuna Bay,...
How about this one? http://newatlas.com/solarwave-64-catamaran/47205/?li_source=LI&li_medium=default-widget Reportedly can cruise a 6-7 knots on...
Noah Wannabe indeed!! This project has gone quite far in that a solar powered catamaran has been built with this technology that has...
Do you mean latitudes? This depends on the time of year, of course. A flat laying panel in summer yields a very high proportion of the rated...
I have done a lot of work in this area in plans to commercially produce a 55 foot by 24 foot live-aboard solar powered shoreline cruiser. I have...
The sun is the largest Nuclear Fusion reactor in the solar system. And it is a comfortable 93 million miles away so we avoid all of the hassles of...
Hi Burt, Happy new year to you too!! One concern of reflecting additional light, however, is that photovoltaics become less efficient, the...
More complicated that it looks! Hi Bert, The problem with what you are proposing is that it is founded on incomplete information. Flat solar...
Hi Rick, Having used batteries for many years for solar energy applications and electric vehicles, from experience I learned that battery failure...
If you charge a bunch of batteries in series, how do you use a BMS simultaneously equalize one cell without charging the others? Do you use a...
Off Topic? How big is a boat? City-sized too big? Floating island idea shortlisted...
Having used battery packs for the past 27 years in solar energy installations, I can tell you that until we have supercapacitors with the...
It would be poor design to have solar panels that are shaded by sails. I do not believe that a single response to your post has been factual. The...
North Carolina State University engineers have created a non-toxic coating for use on ship hulls that resisted build-up of troublesome barnacles...
