A seafaring band of scientists, engineers and yachtsmen with an obsession for Jules Verne and clean energy are building what they call the largest solar boat in the world, a $13 million catamaran they ...

Boston Gerard D'Aboville is an experienced navigator -- he's rowed alone across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He's accustomed to monitoring the wind and the current. But as the captain of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KINGSTON, New York — Behind the diesel-powered Rip Van Winkle party boat, across from Mathilda, the decommissioned 19th-century ...

Weber: “We’ll have a speed race, and then a slalom race, and then an endurance race, which is the students going around a set of buoys for an hour, and whoever gets the most laps, you know, wins that ...

More than 20 solar powered boats, built by middle school and high school students from schools throughout the Central Valley, competed in the 2nd annual SMUD Solar Regatta Race on Friday at the Rancho ...

While it might not be the world’s largest solar boat or the fastest, this modest home-built solar-powered boat does the job and comfortably accommodates six passengers. Dubbed “Firefly,” it was built ...

ROYALTON - The Royalton High School Design Engineering students built a solar boat for the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society annual solar regatta at Lake Phalen in St. Paul. Area residents got a ...

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PARADISE — Evergreen 6 taught Paradise Elementary School kids about renewable energy Wednesday morning with the help of their award-winning solar boat. The students won two awards at this year”s solar ...

The toughest part of sailing a boat 37,286 miles around the world using only solar power turns out not to be, say, that the sun won’t shine, or that the machinery breaks down. It’s a more common ...

Silicon Valley father of four Damon McMillan is hoping to launch the fruits of a two year garage project in time for Memorial Day. He's just put the finishing touches to his Seacharger boat and plans ...