Solar boat completes fuel-free Atlantic voyage

A Swiss-built solar vessel has arrived in New York in what the group behind the project said was the first sun-powered voyage across the Atlantic.

Solar boat completes fuel-free Atlantic voyage

A Swiss-built solar vessel has arrived in New York in what the group behind the project said was the first sun-powered voyage across the Atlantic.

Dubbed “sun21,” the catamaran reached North Cove Marina after a journey of six months and more than 8,000 miles from Chipiona, Spain, to the Caribbean island of Martinique and then along the US East Coast to New York, the Switzerland-based group transatlantic21 said in a statement.

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