Pressrelease of May 8th, 2007
"sun21" makes historic arrival in New York City!
Using solar power only
  Arrival in New York on May, 8th 2007 8th May 2007: "sun21" makes historic arrival in New York City!
Using solar power only, the catamaran "sun21" undertook the first motorized crossing of the Atlantic with solar power to promote the great potential of this technology for ocean navigation. The "sun21" arrived in New York City on 8 May 2007, 3 pm, having covered about 7000 sea miles.		  
  The sun21 completes the first transatlantic crossing by a solar powered boat

sun21, the solar powered catamaran developed and sponsored by the Swiss transatlantic21 Association made its historic arrival into New York?s North Cove Marina at 3:00pm today. On this beautiful day the "sun21" crew was happy to have reached their final destination safely.
"sun21" serves as the shining example of clean energy applications in practice. Michel Thonney, skipper of the "sun21" put it like this: "I don't particularly like speeches but I would like to shout out to the world - use solar energy!"


  
More informationen here www.sun21.info
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