<div class='by' style='font-style: italic;'>by hey! ( 33014 )</div>
<div class='comment_content'><p></p><p>> There really aren't a lot of obstacles to deal with. Just point the boat and go.</p><p>I imagine that's true, if you have an effectively unlimited energy, but the terms of this contest is to build a vehicle less than eight feet long that can cross the Atlantic.</p><p>That's not a lot of room to stuff with batteries or diesel fuel, or to cover with solar panels. And that's the whole point. If you could make the vehicle a hundred feet long, this challenge would be expensive, but easy. By making the boat tiny, you make the challenge affordable, but tough.</p><p>The race has two divisions, sail powered and unlimited, but it's hard to see what they had in mind for propulsion by having an unlimited division. Possibly some seawater-replenished fuel cell.</p></div>
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<div class='by' style='font-style: italic;'>by hey! ( 33014 )</div>
<div class='comment_content'><p></p><p>> There really aren't a lot of obstacles to deal with. Just point the boat and go.</p><p>I imagine that's true, if you have an effectively unlimited energy, but the terms of this contest is to build a vehicle less than eight feet long that can cross the Atlantic.</p><p>That's not a lot of room to stuff with batteries or diesel fuel, or to cover with solar panels. And that's the whole point. If you could make the vehicle a hundred feet long, this challenge would be expensive, but easy. By making the boat tiny, you make the challenge affordable, but tough.</p><p>The race has two divisions, sail powered and unlimited, but it's hard to see what they had in mind for propulsion by having an unlimited division. Possibly some seawater-replenished fuel cell.</p></div>
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