Abstract :
Inside the main cabin of MS Turanor Planet Solar, the first boat to travel around the world on sunlight alone, Christian Ochsenbein opens a trap-door hidden beneath a seat cushion and crawls inside. He climbs down a dark tube and squats inside a long, narrow chamber-one of two pontoons keeping the catamaran afloat. "We are now inside the \´engine\´ room," he jokes. This being a solarpowered boat, there is no real engine to see. He points out the propeller shaft, driven by AC motors, and at the opposite end, a vault that houses solarcharged batteries.
