Thanks Jim, I do remember the Whitbread races, I seem to recall being on the Isle of wight one year when the race was passing through the Solent, I was fairly young at the time but remember it being a pretty big event.
Do you still have the jacket?, Glad you like the photos, I chose the wrong position really as only four of the twelve clippers went through Tower bridge, the rest went straight from St Catherine’s dock and down river.

I agree with you there Jim and I also wonder if this technology could work on a larger scale. I get the feeling it would be the batteries and the weight involved with them that holds back this technology.

From what I have read she has lithium ion batteries and is pretty capable to use its own power. I can’t find the original link I had read but here is the Wiki one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BBranor_PlanetSolar

Great shots.