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Welcome to the special section “BAM 35 Years.” We are presenting “cult” articles from the Motor Boats archive, starting in 1990. A journey through time among stories unobtainable today, even in the great sea of the internet! A dive into the world of epic moments in motor boating. Here is one of the stories we were most passionate about.
From Boats to Motors 2013, no. 5, June, pp. 44-45.
Eight thousand kilometers without consuming a single liter of fuel, but propelled only by the sun. This is PlanetSolar’s new venture across the Atlantic Ocean.
PlanetSolar is a trimaran 31 meters long and 15 meters wide and is clad with 537 square meters of solar panels. In 2012 it sailed around the world in 585 days, covering 32,400 miles (60,000 km) at an average of 7.5 knots, without consuming a liter of fuel. The success of the round-the-world voyage by sun-power alone, which PlanetSolar Ms Türanor completed last year, was the impetus for a new venture that set off March 19 from Monaco, which will propel this 31-meter trimaran back across the Atlantic Ocean, touching the northernmost reaches for the first time. The expedition is divided into two missions, one scientific, the other ecological. The first is the Deep Water Expedition, which will engage a group of scientists, led by climatologist and professor Martin Beniston, in physical and biological measurements in water and air. The researchers will be primarily interested in ocean vortices, transporters of large amounts of energy, and deep water formation zones, strategic places where surface waters go to the seafloor, feeding “ocean turnover.”
The greenest mission is related to a waste collection in European waters, which will start from Bergen, Norway, when Ms Tûranor reaches it around August 20 coming from Iceland. To do all this, the trimaran has been modified in many parts. Also new is the crew, which will have to sail an 8,000-kilometer itinerary, descending along the European coast and, after the ocean crossing, ascending along the northeastern American one. The crew will also attempt to break the world speed record for a transatlantic crossing powered only by solar energy, achieved in 2010, which is 26 days.
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