SOLO SAIL AROUND AUSTRALIA CHALLENGE

Margaret Williams, a 45 year old GP from the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, set off on her bid to sail around Australia, alone. She began the 6,700 mile trip, likely to take between 70 and 80 days, on 19th October, a little later than planned. She is now sailing the Timor Sound, off Northern West Australia.
Eclectic is proud to have supplied, in partnership with our Australian distributor, Power Protection Solutions, a D400 Wind Generator which will help to keep yacht ‘Against All Odds’ batteries charged.
“Circumnavigating Australia non-stop is one of the most difficult passages in the world”, says Margaret. She sites frequent wind changes brought on by the effects of land, attention to navigation in order to avoid reefs, plus high risk of collision with busy coastal shipping.
Margaret’s passion for sailing began when she was 11 years old. Most of the 24,000 miles she has sailed since have been ‘short handed’ and 6,000 of those miles have been solo.
“No woman has been successful in this feat as yet,” says Margaret, “and I hope to be the first.”
We wish her luck and safe sailing!
You can find follow Margaret’s progress on her website,
www.solosailoz.pixelenium.com
Click on ‘Gallery’ to see pictures of the D400 installation, and read Margaret’s ‘News from the Boat’.
On November 21 st, Margaret wrote in her log, “my windgenerator, the Eclectic D400 has been making all the power I need, I do really love this unit as it is always quiet inside and outside the boat and starts pumping in power earlier than most generators.”

LONDON BOAT SHOW 2006

Brighten up the short winter days with a visit to the show at ExCel in Docklands.

The show runs from 6 th to 15 th January.

We have the same corner stand as last year in the South Hall (S2410) and we look forward to welcoming you and telling you the latest about our superb products!

More information later this month.

The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers 2005 is underway, and several of the participating yachts have a DuoGen installed to charge their batteries during the crossing.
There are 224 yachts taking part in ARC 2005, of which 196 are in the cruising divisions and 28 are in the RORC Racing Divisions.
ARC 2005 started from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands on Sunday 20 November 2005 and finishes at Rodney Bay Marina, St.Lucia. The first boat is expected to cross the finish line around 2nd December.
The 2700 n mile passage will take most of the yachts between 18 and 21 days.
You can follow their progress on the official ARC website www.worldcruising.com/arc2005

Price increase

Owing to the increase in costs of materials and fuel, we have no option but to make a small increase to our prices from January 2006. Details will be available later in the month.

The explosion of interest in grid-linked domestic turbines, such as Eclectic’s StealthGen, continues to grow.

You may have noticed, especially if you live in the London area, that there was a lot of media interest over the installation of a micro turbine on a house in South London at the end of October. That was a StealthGen System and the installation was supervised by Eclectic’s MD, Pete Anderson.

The householder, Donnachadh McCarthy, is an environmental journalist who received planning permission to have a turbine on his house three years ago, and it has taken until now to find a suitable system.

You can look at BBC news on line coverage by going to the DuoGen web site and clicking in the ‘Latest News’ box in the top right hand corner, or go to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4364418.stm
or
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4373148.stm

You can see from the picture above that the StealthGen is perfectly in keeping with a suburban street.

If you would like more information about domestic microwind systems, contact us at 01623 827829, or visit the StealthGen site, www.stealthgen.com