Beautifully conceived and built! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Here’s hoping your environmental and design aesthetic draws this the attention this elegant transport well deserves. Thank you for your care and reverence for and of our only home.
Hi Steven, thanks for your interest, you raise a good point. I have now completed the preliminary design for a self sufficient, zero emission 2.4kW 4-berth cruiser version of the 33 which would make a good, compact liveaboard version. I'll get the drawings up on the website soon, Derek
I love to see more solid sail solar covered wings on boats... Utilizing the wind means you have to have big sales but big sales means you're going to have shading on solar panels.... Now if you had a big wing covered with solar panels you could take advantage of both sun and wind...
We are looking at solar sails for a research vessel. Our Secret EX 33 features fold out solar panels www.gosailcargo.com/secret-33-ex.html. Robert Dane pioneered solar sails 20 or so years ago but technology has advanced significantly in recent years, so such systems are now viable - Derek.
Wonderful and elegant and majestic craft, with a lot of romance added in. The hulls of the old America's cup contenders were a magnificent design which really followed what was evolved by nature to be driven so naturally by the wind and not shear power which can make a brick fly. There is a gentleness in the design which speaks to the water particles and tells them that they should go out of the way and recombine later as the hull passes through. The manner in which those individual water particles are coaxed to get out of the way with the minimum accelerations and then to recombine without causing too much vacuum at the aft half end, well that is something that nature does and nature just cannot afford to waste energy. I would have tried to use a fishtail to propel the boat as a rotating propeller is not so natural, but of course it is smoother especially if it is driven by a brush less motor and not the DC commutator motors. I often though about building such a boat, and I would add a bathing platform at the back which would act as a boarding and a landing platform for passengers and a walk through passage to get to the seating arrangement. Nice life and a wonderful settings to live in. Congratulations of looking after the environment and for such a good 'eye' in choosing the lines of old style boats. Where I come from we had such classical boats which were belonging to the British Admiral as ferry boats and once they were steam powered which later changed to diesel power but the funnel was retained and its copper shone in the sun and it occasionally reflected the sun rays with a twinkle. Beautiful memories of a natural world which is changing fast into a concrete jungle. Keep what you have as long as you can.
Thank you for your complimentary thoughts. For me, the design process starts with my affinity for the sea and the way a small ship interacts. I already have a transom sterned version of the Secret 33 drawn up. It features a bathing platform and will be available as an old fashioned cabin cruiser. Again, the idea is to retain the old lines but combine them with the best of modern technology. Anyway, thank you again, Derek derek@scruffie.com
Wish this vessel was mie - really cuts along in fine style. Curious to know what it would cost to build one like her or even purchase a ready built version.
I'm thinking about building a solar powered cat yacht / house boat to live on. But I'm wondering what the maximum speed you think you could achieve with a lightweight 32 foot catamaran with some living space? I would want a full roof of 10x5m with 10kWp solar panels. From my calculations you'd maybe run a 4kW electro motor. Additionally you could have a battery to double that every second day and a generator to supplement when you need more speed or range.
Now we've designed a liveaboard version - more details scruffie.com/secret33-SE.html or go directly to our brochure scruffie.com/pdf/secret33_SE_layout_3_specs.pdf
I was very happy with the video but I do take your point - a different sound track could have been nicer but more costly for our very generous producer.
We fully relate to what you do. We have converted a small yacht into o pure solar powered boat. It works just great!
Beautifully conceived and built! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Here’s hoping your environmental and design aesthetic draws this the attention this elegant transport well deserves. Thank you for your care and reverence for and of our only home.
Thank you for this video and for inspiration! Beautiful boat. Congrats. We build similar project to promote electric boats in the Amazon Rainforest.
May God bless this man :)
Congratulations.
We're sailing in "Solar Flotilla"
Regards
George. Poland
Lovely day out on a lovely little Solar Powered Boat.
let's see the cruiser design! lots of interest now for solar powered live a board's.
Hi Steven, thanks for your interest, you raise a good point. I have now completed the preliminary design for a self sufficient, zero emission 2.4kW 4-berth cruiser version of the 33 which would make a good, compact liveaboard version. I'll get the drawings up on the website soon, Derek
Hi Steven - please see link above for liveaboard version!
I'll buy or build a few solar boats ☯️
Well put👍👍👍
Ships with solar pannels?
Wher's the new?
Great boat. Great vid.
I love to see more solid sail solar covered wings on boats... Utilizing the wind means you have to have big sales but big sales means you're going to have shading on solar panels.... Now if you had a big wing covered with solar panels you could take advantage of both sun and wind...
We are looking at solar sails for a research vessel. Our Secret EX 33 features fold out solar panels www.gosailcargo.com/secret-33-ex.html. Robert Dane pioneered solar sails 20 or so years ago but technology has advanced significantly in recent years, so such systems are now viable - Derek.
Wonderful and elegant and majestic craft, with a lot of romance added in. The hulls of the old America's cup contenders were a magnificent design which really followed what was evolved by nature to be driven so naturally by the wind and not shear power which can make a brick fly. There is a gentleness in the design which speaks to the water particles and tells them that they should go out of the way and recombine later as the hull passes through. The manner in which those individual water particles are coaxed to get out of the way with the minimum accelerations and then to recombine without causing too much vacuum at the aft half end, well that is something that nature does and nature just cannot afford to waste energy. I would have tried to use a fishtail to propel the boat as a rotating propeller is not so natural, but of course it is smoother especially if it is driven by a brush less motor and not the DC commutator motors.
I often though about building such a boat, and I would add a bathing platform at the back which would act as a boarding and a landing platform for passengers and a walk through passage to get to the seating arrangement. Nice life and a wonderful settings to live in. Congratulations of looking after the environment and for such a good 'eye' in choosing the lines of old style boats. Where I come from we had such classical boats which were belonging to the British Admiral as ferry boats and once they were steam powered which later changed to diesel power but the funnel was retained and its copper shone in the sun and it occasionally reflected the sun rays with a twinkle. Beautiful memories of a natural world which is changing fast into a concrete jungle. Keep what you have as long as you can.
Thank you for your complimentary thoughts. For me, the design process starts with my affinity for the sea and the way a small ship interacts. I already have a transom sterned version of the Secret 33 drawn up. It features a bathing platform and will be available as an old fashioned cabin cruiser. Again, the idea is to retain the old lines but combine them with the best of modern technology. Anyway, thank you again,
Derek
derek@scruffie.com
Scruffie Marine Boats - hope you'll put a picture/schematic of it up sooner than later! It sounds wonderful!
Highest speed with mid day full sun?
And then he gets into his V8 SUV and drives home from the dock.
Or maybe he drives his Tesla.
after plugging in the boat for charging because it doesn't get enough power from the panels alone
Wish this vessel was mie - really cuts along in fine style. Curious to know what it would cost to build one like her or even purchase a ready built version.
Thanks for your compliments, the cost would depend on a whole number of specifications, email us for details info@scruffie.com
Awesome. But so weird that you didn't maximize the space on the roof? There is still more space there and solar panels are dirt cheap by now.
Yes, I agree but we don't own the boat, even so she will do 4.5 knots under solar alone.
Ah thanks, that's interesting.
I'm thinking about building a solar powered cat yacht / house boat to live on. But I'm wondering what the maximum speed you think you could achieve with a lightweight 32 foot catamaran with some living space?
I would want a full roof of 10x5m with 10kWp solar panels. From my calculations you'd maybe run a 4kW electro motor.
Additionally you could have a battery to double that every second day and a generator to supplement when you need more speed or range.
Love it
how many tipes of eLectric soLar paneLs' ferry boats?
Now we've designed a liveaboard version - more details scruffie.com/secret33-SE.html or go directly to our brochure scruffie.com/pdf/secret33_SE_layout_3_specs.pdf
Have you sold any?
Totally steam punk sailor Moon
cool
how much this boat coast ?
Custom built from $AUD170,000
Depends on the wind and currents.
Custom? So it could have a head?
Music doesn’t fit boat
I was very happy with the video but I do take your point - a different sound track could have been nicer but more costly for our very generous producer.