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When the family car is a solar-powered boat

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What do you do if you live off the coast of Panama and you need to get the family around? If you’re Jaimie Mantzel, you build yourself a solar powered boat… or three.

Mantzel had previously built a 16′ catamaran sailboat with a plywood and fiberglass hull, which he later converted to a solar powered motorboat. Taking what he learned, Mantzel built a larger pontoon boat with many clever innovations. He also started on a huge house boat to live on, but that’s another story.
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