Man Living Off Grid on a DIY Solar Powered Sailboat 100 Fossil Fuel Free

Simon has transformed this derelict sailboat into an epic offgrid solarpowered and fossilfuel free cruising catamaran. He s been living aboard and renovating the boat for the past 3. 5 years We re excited to show you the transformation as well as how he plans to propel the boat without the use of diesel or fossil fuels You can follow Finding Simons inspiring boat building and liveaboard adventures here: Old Dog is a 1976 Wharram Oro 47, which is a Polynesian canoe catstyle boat. Simon purchased it for 5000 CAD after it had been sitting in the same spot for 12 years (looking back he probably wouldn t have paid that much for it ). To transform the boat to a fully electric sailboat, Simon removed the diesel engine and replaced it with an HP EV AC 12 kW engine, and installed 16 x 330