To set a stimulating and fast, authoritative, environmental benchmark for the first solar circumnavigation using a unique solar boat with no sails or wind generators or fuels of any kind on board, not even for cooking.

For the 72 year old captain and project originator and leader to be the first to solar circumnavigate the world using a purpose built solar boat of his design and construction.

To use the circumnavigation as the core dramatic structure to an exciting, environmental adventure full length cinema feature film:
A docu-drama bio-pic combining real time adventure, historical re-enactment and investigative documentary.

To demonstrate and discuss, during the appriximately 100 days of the record setting voyage, over the airwaves and the internet, the fact that photovoltaic based solar power offers, immediately, the possibility to cut:

• 25% up to 50% of vehicle and transport emissions
• and up to 100% of electricity generation emissions.

While offering serious, practical, environmentally sound energy solutions, the business of photovoltaics (and other effective direct harnessing of solar power such as mirrors and simple solar water heating panels), mostly is seen as a poor, un-sexy business model.

Solar power is a, 'classically' defined, dead end business. Once installed, it creates little or no dependency. It is like selling ink jet printers that do not, thereafter, require replacement cartridges!

Photovoltaics are a direct challenge to the very heart of the established oil, gas supply giants, as well as the major electricity supply companies, and all of the nuclear industry.
Further, photovoltaics threaten the fleets of tankers, the on-land fuel distributors, pipeline operators and all the associated construction, maintenance and support businesses.

Sources as diverse as BBC documentary programmes and, for example, BP (despite, by aqcquisition, having become the world’s largest solar panel manufacturer) have perpetuated an astonishing amount and range of spin against the value of photovoltaics. This has resulted in little, almost insignificant, amounts of funding for photovoltaic research, innovation, production and deployment since the 1973 oil crisis.

The neglect of photovoltaics (and related technologies) as the potential major “free” and readily available source of energy for human activity may yet prove to be the single greatest scandal of the 20th, and the 21st centuries.

This needs to change !