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 ...

Jun. 9—Solar Splash, the world championship of collegiate solar boating, is taking place this week in Springfield in a five-day event that started Tuesday and will end Saturday. Teams from Poland and ...

Electric watercraft are an increasingly popular segment of the boating market. But a new electric catamaran from Sweden known as the POL Lux is taking it one step further with an electric boat that ...

Imagine a boat that runs on sunshine. That's precisely what the Solar Sal 24 is all about. It's an electric boat created by Belmont Boatworks in Belmont, Maine, and here's the kicker: it's the very ...

Quillen, an engineer, bought the boat years later and installed a solar-diesel hybrid propulsion system. He said the boat has traveled about 2,300 miles under solar power, and cruising speed under ...

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 ...

Dutch firm Soel Yachts is taking the fast-growing industry of ecotourism and reduction of transport emissions into unchartered waters: solar-powered boats. The company’s SoelCat 12, a solar-electric ...

Eight college teams raced in the 28th annual Solar Splash at the Clark County Fairgrounds this week. The Solar Splash is the World Championship of Collegiate Solar Boating and includes intercollegiate ...

It’s an event that organizers hope will make environmental waves. From July 14 to 16, The Monaco Solar Boat Challenge, organized by the Monaco Yacht Club (YCM) and supported by the International Union ...

When nature calls while out boating, the waste from the marine toilet – or head – flows through to an onboard holding tank. The potent contents of this tank then need to be responsibly disposed of at ...