North American Eight Metre Association

Mr. James Farquharson of Lake Ontario’s favourite Swedish 8m RANJA is busy working in London for the season, but has made time to create a really nice spreadsheet to track the season results. You can find it here for now, or you can look to the top banner and select  “TRACKING”.

Thanks Jamie!

African Cats Developing All-Electric Drive for Sailing Yachts

29 May 2007

Drawing showing the position of the retractable drive units. Click to enlarge.

African Cats, the Dutch company that last year introduced a hybrid version of one of its lightweight, 43-foot catamarans (earlier post), is developing a full-electric retractable propulsion and generation system for sailing yachts.

African Cats plans to use a 40 kW lithium-ion battery pack designed to provide continuous operation for 12 hours Continue reading Interesting Electric Drives – repost from Green Car Congress