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Gentle capacitor powered catapults might help with that? With short range flights, even 60 mph might help, compared to driving stuck in traffic.

Or maybe he found sails are easier to control at the size needed- 9 sq meters is getting pretty big, although windsurfers/foiling have multiple techs to control things, along with modern expressions of traditional sailing rigs- then there is the most obvious approach, kite sailing, but all...

Might look at the Kickbike electric, if they’re sold in the UK. Don’t know what they might run cost wise…

It depends on your system- the Torqeedo saildrive + 48-5000 batteries, for example, with the fixed turbine prop (not the folding prop), if you’re sailing between ~ 4-12 knots through the water under sail alone, the fixed turbine prop turns (freewheels?) as the boat goes through the water, and...

Patrickza- nice project! Really good to hear about solar panel performance- especially range. It’ll be interesting to know how much speed prop regeneration lowers sailing speed. We just converted our monohull sail boat from a Yanmar diesel to a Torqeedo 48-5000 for the Torqeedo Saildrive, and...