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Finnish man builds inexpensive solar boat and sets off to mediterranian. Gives out the plans for free (m.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Nickelalloy@lemmy.world to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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So i thought this fits here, he calls the boat Helios 11 and builds it with very little experience. He docunents the adventure quite well and shares what he learns, and also shares all the plans for the boat for free.

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[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Someone in the comments said it best, it's a very cool canal boat but nothing that light would stand-up to open ocean waves.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It could work in nice weather in the Mediterranean or some other more calm seas

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

its ok for coastal mediteranean too. He did use it through canals of northern europe to get down to spain.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

That's actually impressive.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 days ago

This specific design maybe not, but similar light plywood-epoxy catamarans based on designs by James Wharram are well regarded and proven open-ocean sailboats.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He gets into this in the later videos but he's living aboard it quite a while now in the Mediterranean.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

Meh, do you know the level of tech that spread mankind across the world. Roughly logs. OP is likely fine.