{"id":142504,"date":"2022-07-19T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/worlds-first-circumnavigation"},"modified":"2022-08-28T03:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T08:33:02","slug":"worlds-first-circumnavigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/worlds-first-circumnavigation","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First Circumnavigation By Solar Powered Ship a Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-circumnavigation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2012<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At 2:12 PM local time today, the MS *T\u00fbranor *entered Monaco\u2019s Hercule Harbor, becoming the first ship to travel around the world using only solar power.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same harbor where the *T\u00fbranor *set out from more than 19 months and 37,286 miles ago. Since then, the ship has made port in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2012\/01\/solar-ships-round-the-world-sail-almost-complete\/\">six continents<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2012\/03\/solar-powered-ship-evades-pirates-in-the-gulf-of-aden\/\">fended off pirates<\/a> and broke four Guinness world records, including longest journey by solar powered boat and first circumnavigation by solar powered boat.<\/p>\n<p>For the team behind the *T\u00fbranor, *the work has just started. They\u2019ve spent more than a year and a half preaching the solar gospel at stops around the world, and their passion for the power of the sun hasn\u2019t dimmed one bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2012 At 2:12 PM local time today, the MS *T\u00fbranor *entered Monaco\u2019s Hercule Harbor, becoming the first ship to travel around the world using only solar power. It\u2019s the same harbor where the *T\u00fbranor *set out from more than 19 months and 37,286 miles ago. Since then, the ship has made port in six [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145004,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142504\/revisions\/145004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}