Solarboatlife
Richard Bartlett
Tthis our family site about our life on a solar powered eco widebeam boat. After our daugher was born in 2012 we naturally started thinking about the future, about a timescale beyond our own lifetimes. We became more aware of the petrol and diesel we were burning in our cars, the gas we burned every time we turned on the hot water, and the impact what we were eating was having on our planet. It didn't happen overnight, but living a sustainable life went from an apiration to a fundamental principle. We wanted to live free of fossil fuels, using renewable energy sources wherever we could, as efficiently as we could, producing minimal waste and eating sustainable food.
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It's been nearly 5 years since Hara Shakti was craned into the Great Ouse at Westview Marina in Earith, 5 years of stress, anxiety, anger and bloody hard work (by Nat), but we're almost there. Next week we're travelling back to where it all began to get the hull blacked, replace the prop shaft, add a thrust bearing,...
Who are/were Solar Powered Boats? The website for Solar Powered Boats is now offline, so I presume Thames Solar Electric have given up on the rebrand. I've replaced all links to the site with links to the archive of their website on the excellent Wayback Machine. Unfortunately all the images are no longer available....
Something the internet is missing is a review of a Thames Solar Electric boat by someone who has actually bought one, and owned it for over a year. There are at least ten of these boats on our waterways, but there's never been a detailed review (though there are a couple of very bad reviews on Google and Trustpilot,...
Rebuilding your boat from scratch with no previous experience, using reclaimed material, on a limited budget, and using technology not…
We lifted all the ballast blocks, cleaned up all the sawdust and sprayfoam dust (which would have held any water…
Most narrowboats have a base of treated 18mm marine plywood laid across the boat’s steel transverse bearers or “ribs” as…
Once the floor was up and the cladding was off the bow wall, I could see the insulated stainless steel…
After the 400+ days trying to get Thames Solar Electric to do the right thing, at the end of 2022…
The full horror Buckle in for the ride as I describe a list of screw-ups normally only see on an…
The short answer is no! Not only do we have a car without a charger; the electric car is our…
A good example this morning of the fear and trepidation of life aboard a boat built by Thames Solar Electric.
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