SOLARA confirmed as Official Supplier

We’re pleased to announce that SOLARA of Germany have become our latest confirmed Official Supplier for the HJ Sailing campaign.

“I’m really delighted to have the SOLARA team join our Golden Globe Race project, it’s another great step for our campaign and will provide us with some incredible Solar panels for Puffin’s new electrical system” reveals Ian.

For over 25 years SOLARA has been developing off-grid solar systems. SOLARA panels are used for various projects including the roofs of mobile and holiday homes, in parking ticket machines as well as racing and cruising yachts.

The stand-alone systems also help to power remote villages and houses in emerging or developing countries.

The Golden Globe Race is the ultimate off-grid event, sailing non-stop around the world Ian will be alone at sea for up to 9 months, so the kit which SOLARA will be providing is going to be critical to keeping Ian’s communications and safety systems running during the race.

“We’ll be using SOLARA M Power Series flexible panels, with four fixed units on the deck and one mobile unit, which will give us up to 430W of power generation, at least during most sunny days of the race” Ian explains.