An electric = solar/ generator powered boat has to navigate TOTALLY different than any sail yacht: hop between blue over windy (cloudy) patches, best seasons almost opposite. Pre-monsoon is most sunny, as are mornings. Ocean currents equally important. Much less chop when out of wind.

TopFun lol

@@Anton-tf9iw it's still a sail powered yacht, you can regen power when sailing.

wow thank you for kind words... glad to take y'all along for the ride!

"Light Side" is a fitting name!

Her name is "Alexa" --- "Alexa, take me to St. Martin"

He said Lagoon-wood-rot so many times. Nothing wrong with a well designed/maintained wooden boat in fact the builder corrected him 12:00 saying rot had nothing to do with it.

thank you! yours too

It's got a 55kw diesel generator ......its hardly what I'd call an electric boat

'High density foam' and 'solid hull' are oxymorons. The whole purpose of foam (or balsa end-grain mats) is to provide a low-density light weight core inside of a bonded sandwich with two outside panels of fiberglas or marine 1/4 inch plywood, etc. The foam or balsa transmits geometric forces through itself from one shell to the other one, with the second shell strong in tension. The entire sandwich is almost as strong as solid fiberglass but much lighter, essential for cats. Solid hulls are for monohull displacement boats, where resistance to grounding or collision damage is more important than lighter weight.

@@armslength2618 So what is your consensus, is this the best construction method for today's Cats? I keep reading about the bulkhead failures on Parley's channel.

@@jcheck6 The 'best' method is application of the optimal material and construction techniques to any particular component. One size does not fit all. If bulkheads are failing, perhaps a better material and stouter construction at that place is appropriate. I could build a cat out of 1/2 inch EH26 grade carbon steel, but it might end up with about an inch of freeboard due to the weight. Same as an airplane. You could build it so heavy that it could never get off the ground. But if you use a good steel for the wing box and carbon fiber most other places, you would have something both strong and airworthy. And possibly prohibitively expensive. A good start to study from is the construction technique of the Gunboat 68. Then figure out how to build it out of balsa/E-glass sandwich and a bit of steel and/or marine fir plywood to bring down the cost at the expense of a bit of extra weight.

Tell all the shit country's that.

How about that Dutch guy who is doing it already getting the plastic out that is

Unfortunately the wrong kind of "plastic" but love the thought!

There is more dissolved uranium in seawater than there is plastic in the ocean. Plastic is a insignificant problem.

Exactly who do you think puts all that plastic in the ocean? Those little plastic and fiberglass recreational boaters do....that's who! Where does the garbage go on a little 30 foot sailboat?? Overboard unless you want to live with it...

ha! love the idea