Energy Observer

[Frogmogman]

This strange looking vessel pitched up in Saint Quay on Tuesday evening. I went over to have a gander. She is an autonomous research vessel powered by a variety of renewables.

I thought to myself, the hulls look remarkably like an 80s Nigel Irens design. Lo and behold, her previous incarnations were as…

Formule Tag,
ENZA New Zealand,
Royal & SunAlliance
Team Legato
Doha
Spirit of Antigua

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[Neeves]

Nice solar display but

someone needs to tell them flexible solar panels don't last very long.

Jonathan

 

[dunedin]

Nice solar display but

someone needs to tell them flexible solar panels don't last very long.

Jonathan

Except that they often do last very well

 

[Frogmogman]

Except that they often do last very well

I dare say they’ve found out about that sort of thing, as they’ve been all over the place since 2018.

TBH it was the weird wing masts pootling past the end of my pontoon that first caught my attention, and then when I went for a look, it was the recycling of an old and famous racing caramaran that grabbed me.