Solar-powered boat cruises to raise energy awareness

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A few years after mechanical engineer Carter Quillen bought the 50-foot concrete sailboat Ketch du Jour, he changed the vessel’s name to the Archimedes. For one thing, Quillen had replaced the masts with solar panels, so the Ketch was no longer a ketch (a two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailboat). “I was looking for a name that had...

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