Solar Odyssey yacht is an experimental platform developed as a first boat propelled only by solar energy to beat the Atlantic record and the first to achieve a world tour without any CO2 emission. This exciting trimaran is being exhibited at the La Grand Pavois 2010 show in La Rochelle.
Sailing Trimaran SOLAR ODYSSEY
After Lorient Multihull Show in April 2010, where she has been unveiled, Le Grand Pavois in La Rochelle now welcomes the electro-solar trimaran Solar Odyssey. Created in 1973, Le Grand Pavois has become a major event in the nautical international schedule. It displays 100 000 m² for exhibition, some 700 exhibited boats and 100 000 visitors every year.
The international dimension of Le Grand Pavois is genuinely in Solar Odyssey’s philosophy, which aims at exchanging on new ways of thinking our relationship to energy during its stops around the globe. Solar Odyssey trimaran thus shares a common openness on the world with the organisation team of Le Grand Pavois and that is why their invitation has been accepted with enthusiasm. Both Le Grand Pavois and Solar Odyssey yacht adopt an environmental approach so as to promote cleaner energies for sailing.
Solar Odyssey sailing trimaran will therefore take this opportunity to show the project advancement and gather people around it. Indeed, after assembling the hull with the central beam and the floats during spring 2010, summer 2010 has witnessed the motorisation system setting, so as to proceed to hydrodynamic tests. Solar Odyssey shall be afloat at the end of Le Grand Pavois.
Solar Odyssey trimaran will be exposed between the special guest countries 2010, Tahiti and her islands, as well as Guadeloupe (stand J8 bis)
