Speculater comments on Finnish man builds inexpensive solar boat and sets off to mediterranian. Gives out the plans for free

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

submitted 3 months 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.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months 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.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 23 points 3 months 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.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

That's actually impressive.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago*

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

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

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