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Power Bag Lazy bag or boom sun shades can be covered with thin, lightweight, very flexible photovoltaic solar cloth. Directly integrated onto an acrylique or polyester canvas, they will ensure the energy independence of your cruising sailboat. Vendée Globe 2016-2017. Conrad Colman’s Foresight 100% natural energy IMOCA 60 produced all its electricity from only its speed and the sun. Electricity was supplied by a hydrogenerator as well as flexible photovoltaic films integrated into the mainsail, and also, more conventionally, fixed on the deck. The electricity was then stored in batteries,...

Monaco EVER INNOVATION PRESSTF1 _ Nice Matin _ Seahorse Magazine Seahorse French sailmaker Alain Janet is the founder of Solar Cloth System which has been busy developing a practical system for generating electrical power from thin photovoltaic films TV news broadcast featuring Solar Cloth System, with a focus on clean energy: “A 100% energy-autonomous boat, equipped with solar sails. This innovative technology was developed by a French company based in Mandelieu-La Napoule”. “Yesterday in Les Sables d’Olonne, 29 skippers took the start of the Vendee Globe, the famous singlehanded race...