Solarwave has no sails - but we have our  Smartkat, a tender that offers a lot of fun. Our guests can attend a sailing-training during their holiday in winds up to 6 beaufort - see photo! Even three men are not too much for this great boat! We became "SmartKat" addicts!

Generally Motorboaters are more enthusiastic for Solarwave than the "sailors" - even though most sailors are driving a motorboat with mast and are only sailing a few miles a year. But at home they can tell everybody - "we´ve been sailing in Greece!" Maybe it sounds better for men between fourty and sixty .... 

Yesterday an elderly sailor expained to us, that Solarwave is much closer to a motorboat than to a sailing boat. He saw our boat the first time, but he knows it for a long time out of the newspapers and television.

Here a short comparison:

Motorboat: mostly planing, cruising speed ca. 20 knots, hard hitting the waves, not noiseless, propulsion with stinky, smoky and expensive fossil fuel
Sailingboat using sail: mostly displace, cruising speed 5- 6 knots, soft movements in the waves, noiseless, emission-free propulsion by using energy for free
Sailingboat using motor: mostly displace, cruising speed 5- 6 knots, soft movements in the waves, not noiseless, propulsion with stinky, smoky and expensive fossil fuel

Solarwave: displace, cruising speed 5- 6 knots, soft movements in the waves, noiseless, emission-free propulsion by using energy for free

Now, what do you think - closer to the motorboats or the sailingboats?

And every day we have to face the same question: "what, if there is no sun?"

Since 3500 nautical miles we did not start our diesel-generator. Is there any sailingboat on earth, which could "sail" that distance without using his diesel-engine - not even to charge its batteries - without using gas for cooking - for a household of 8 persons - including washing cloths, towels and bed-linen for the guests every week? And our guests need a lot of cool drinks, food - including the production of water for drinking, shower and the washing-machine - and including energy for the tender and the motorbike? Is there any sailingboat that can do this solely with his sails???

Yesterday a man in a nautical store asked me, why we do not use sails. Additionally. „Because we do not need them" - I told him. „But the wind is for free" he said - "yes, the sun too, and I can store the sun in the batteries, and the sun is shining every day and always from the right direction, I cannot store the wind - at least not with a sail.

"But it is for free" he insisted - „okay", I said, „then please I want to order a complete rigg with mast, furling systems and sails and all spareparts for the next 20 years - that is the time my solarsails will work at least - and please for free". "But you will need new batteries" he said - "yes, but the batteries are by far cheaper than sails, fuel and sparparts for rigg and engine. And less noisy - always - not only when using the sails".

Every day we experience so many positive reactions - e.g. Spiro from Australia, he has a speedboat with 3 x 300 HP outboard-engines, for him Solarwave is „fascinating", and „great", Giorgio from Italy, wants to exchange his diesel-engines on his catamaran to electric engines - because since weeks he follows our tour on our website, realizing, that it obviously works without fuel. Now he met us in a bay to ask us details about the propulsion.

Not to forget the friendly Captain of a Megayacht, shouting "bravo" and holding his thumb up - see photo

Kind regards, Heike and Michael