Solar Sailor Holdings Ltd. is the Sydney, Australia-based company that has a contract with a 100 percent-owned subsidiary of Hornblower to design the first of two 600 pax hybrid solar and wind powered ferries for the Alcatraz run. See May 2006 issue of Bay Crossings.
Published: January, 2007
Robert Dane, the CEO of Solar Sailor Holdings & Advanced Technology Watercraft Pty. Ltd., said in Dec. 2006, in a written statement to Bay Crossings, We are working with Hornblower and a shipyard on [the hybrid solar ferries] now, and all is going well. The first should be sailing through the Golden Gate in late 2008.
Other solar ferry news from Sydney:
A company called Solar Coast Cats has won a 12-year plus contract to operate ferries on Queensland’s Gold Coast using Solar Sailor designs. And, Solar Sailor is being tested as a ferry service to the city’s Taronga Zoo, starting this month.
