Largest ever solar yacht crosses Atlantic, visits climate conference

11:14 PM Tue 14 Dec 2010 GMT

'Turanor - powered by 38,000 solar cells' .

Everything begins with a dream, and the dream to build the world's largest solar yacht and circumnavigate the earth with her is on its way to becoming true. Launched last April in Kiel in Germany, the 85 tonne catamaran T?ranor left Monaco in September and crossed the Atlantic Ocean last month, claiming a record for the fastest crossing powered purely by the sun. She then sailed south and made a very appropriate appearance at the United Nations climate change conference in Cancun in Mexico. Its 64-year-old German owner, Immo Stroeher, says: 'The theme of this ship and its around-the-world voyage ...

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