The solar boat racing championship season is over, and international solar boat racing organization Solar Sport One has announced the World Cup winners in each of its three race classes. But first a word about Solar Sport One and a quick history of the sport of solar boat racing. To be clear, the boats in the races do not run …

It is a big three weeks coming up for solar boat racing. Unfortunately, no you will not find these races on national network television or Sky Channel 😉 You can use the Estela satellite system to ‘see’ the races. It that tracks all the boats and plots them on a Google satellite view of the course. It basically has buttons …

The results are in from the seventh annual Netherlands Solar Boat NK (National Championships) held in Akkrum on a sunny and bright 1st of June. Races were contested in four of the classes sanctioned by international authorizing organization Solar Sport One: A Class, Top Class and V20 Class. These classes include teams from universities and technical colleges, their alumni (for …

The solar boat team of TU Delft (Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands) is one of the most accomplished teams in the world. It is now getting ready for a new challenge: preparing a solar boat to break the record for crossing the English Channel in a boat propelled by only the sun. The current record of 6 hours …