{"id":23929,"date":"2026-08-15T12:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=23929"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:59:03","slug":"a-finn-built-a-solar-boat-in-his-shed-and-sailed-it-5000-km-from-finland-to-ibiza-with-zero-refueling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=23929","title":{"rendered":"A Finn built a solar boat in his shed and sailed it 5,000 km from Finland to Ibiza with zero refueling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vessel is the Helios 11, a 36-foot (11-meter) experimental  electric yacht designed and built in a  shed by Finnish inventor Lukas Sj\u00f6man.<br \/>\nIt successfully traveled over 3,000 nautical miles from Finland toward Ibiza without refueling.<br \/>\nThe yacht is powered by a 6 kW rooftop solar array and reportedly uses less  electricity while cruising than a household blender.<br \/>\nThe construction cost was approximately $20,724, and the vessel relies on battery reserves during nighttime or cloudy weather.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Solar Boat Reaches IBIZA after 5000 km on Zero Fuel\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ippoO4Pg-Pk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vessel is the Helios 11, a 36-foot (11-meter) experimental electric yacht designed and built in a shed by Finnish inventor Lukas Sj\u00f6man. It successfully traveled over&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23931,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions\/23931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}