- lost for words - speechless -
Paradise, we dropped the anchor in a bay with blue water we´ve never seen before. In spite of the 2nd. week of August and thousands of tourists from Italy and all other countries, thes beach is our - we are nearly alone!

We discussed about, which bay is the most beautiful on earth, before we´ve seen this bay we would have said - Salt Whistle Bay at Mayreau, Cayo Herradura in Venezuela,
The Bath in the British Virgin Islands - but none of these dream-bays is more beautiful than this.

There is no need to travel that far, Greece is so close!

Kind regards, from Paradise - Heike und Michael

PS: all colours are original!!!
- Only if you join us at Solarwave, you will know where to find these bays!

In Greece there are only a few marinas with shore-power-connection. Most villages have non.

As you can see on the photos, this is not shore-power, it is solar-power!

Since several weeks we offer our solar-power to our neighbours - of course for free. The advantage for us is, that they do not bother us and all the others with the noise and the exhausts from their motors or generators - which they need just to cool beer and nutter in the fridge.

We now have different couplings to enable several neighbours at the same time to charge their boats from our power-source

It costs nothing for us, instead of having full batteries at 8pm, they will be recharged by the solarpanels until 9am - so what?

Anyway, even if we cruise a long distance during the day, we always reach our destination in the evening with fully charged batteries and a refilled watertank (by our desalinator). No matter how far we went on this day. For free. A great feeling!

Only one day after Isaacs visit we again had several visitors -  
* first a small motorboat - we gave them Solarwave-folders with the boat-hook - like we always do it - see photo,
* then a Lagoon-Catamaran came alongside to get informations about the project. They could not imagine, that one could produce drinking water with solarpower out of saltwater - so they tested - see photo. When they left, the skipper said - "sorry for the smoke" - because he had to leave the quiet and clean bay by using his diesel-engine ....
In every harbour dozens of interested people gather around Solarwave, asking questions and taking brochures with them.

* George, owner of the largest and best Restaurant in Kalamos and "voluntary harbour-master" in one person - every afternoon he sorts the boats coming into the harbour, telling them, where to park in order to get as many boats in as possible. He has seen us already several times - this afternoon he called me: "Captain! Come, I want to tell you something!" I was afraid of having done something wrong when parking my boat. He said - "I am parking boats here since many years, it was more than 100.000 boats I have parked in these years, but yours is the best boat I have ever seen. Believe me, I tell you this from my heart, the best boat I have ever seen!"

Is it possible to get a nicer compliment? At the photo you see us having dinner in George´s restaurant - romantic, directly at the seaside - very good and incredibly cheap! E.g. Mousaka 6,90, Calamari fried 9,50, beer 2,00 ......

Two days later in Nidri:
* Stelios, Captain of the large Tourist-excursions-boat "Christina", said to me: "I do not know you, but I like you, I like your boat, I like your electric bike, I like your technology!"
* an American Tourist said: "I build Satellites all my life, but I´m retired now, I´m from United States. We used about the same amount of solarpanels for the autonomy of our satellites. I really appreciate what you are doing - good luck!"
* Mr. Kanaris, the director of the large online-yachting-magazine "all4yachting.com" told us, that the trend of the sailing-charter-customers goes towards catamarans and the motoryacht-customers are less interested in speed, but in luxory and comfort, like only a catamaran could offer to them. He is convinced, that Solarwave is a concept that offers exactly what the customer is asking for and that we will build a lot of boats in the following years.
* this weekend a 2-pages article about Solarwave has been published in the weekend supplement of the great national newspaper "kathimerini" - see photo


Prospective for the next year
Last weeks we made many very positive experiences, compliments for the project and the boat, interested people and potential buyers of new solar-yachts. In the middle of the Atlantic or Pazific Ocean this would not have happened. And in wide parts of the tropics and sub-tropics you have cloudy and rainy weather during a long period of time every year. Greece is a land having sun every day, here we can find people from all over the world that come here because of this fact - people that are able to install solarpanels on their house or to buy a boat like this.

So we discussed with our partners and friends about the future time-schedule and we agreed that it is better for the project to stay one more year in Greece (Jonian Sea) to give more people the opportunity to sail with us and to experience the benefits of noiseless and pollution-free cruising and living on board - and to advertise for the project, for our partners and for a clean planet.

Up to now Solarwave "solar-sailed" more than 3.500 nautical miles without fossil fuels - no gas, no diesel!!! (and no sails)

Kind regards, Heike und Michael