LBV35: WORLD’S MOST SUSTAINABLE BOAT TO DATE SET TO ARRIVE IN 2021
Next year La Belle Verde (LBV) and Innovation Yachts are launching the ‘LBV35’, said to be the world’s most sustainable boat. LBV is a pioneer of the green boating movement, having designed, developed and introduced a fleet of solar powered, emission free vessels since launching in Ibiza 2014.
Maarten Bernhart, one of the founders of LBV said it was time for change. “There are currently around 20 million recreational vessels in the EU and USA, all built with highly toxic and nonrecyclable materials. All of these boats will end up on landfills or on the bottom of the sea within the next ten to 20 years,” he said.
Having previously focused on reducing emissions by implementing solar-electric propulsion technology, attention now turns to materials, construction and lifespan. The LBV35 is a 100% recyclable composite boat; even the moulds are made of fully recyclable material and LBV has also committed to a sustainable ‘loop’ recycling model whereby the company will buy back the composite materials and reuse them for future builds.
Suitable for single-handed sailing and with a top speed of 22 knots, the LBV35 will be produced in Les Sables d’Olonne in France, home to Norbert Sedlacek’s Innovation Yachts. “After 11 years of continuous development with fully recyclable, high end yacht building materials we are happy to become the home of the new LBV35,” said Norbert Sedlacek.
BALTIC COUNTRIES TO LOOK AT NEW EVIDENCE ON 1994 ROLL-ON ROLL-OFF FERRY ESTONIA SINKING
The roll-on roll-off ferry Estonia, carrying 803 passengers and 186 crew, sank on a stormy Baltic Sea on September 28, 1994. The official investigation in 1997 concluded that the bow shield had failed, damaging the bow ramp and flooding the car deck. However, Sweden said that a Discovery Network documentary about the disaster included new underwater video images from the wreck site showing damage on the starboard side of the wreck.
“Estonia, Finland and Sweden have agreed that verification of the new information presented in the documentary will be made,” the foreign ministers of the three countries said in a joint statement.
The Discovery Network documentary prompted some survivors and relatives of the roll-on-roll-off Estonia’s victims to demand a new independent investigation and also spurred renewed speculation about the cause of the accident. “A hole in the hull was dismissed over the years,” Kent Harstedt, a survivor and former member of the Swedish parliament, told a news conference on Monday. “What has emerged today adds to the question marks – why was the hole not included in the official investigation?”
Estonian public broadcaster ERR on Monday quoted Margus Kurm, a former state prosecutor and head of the committee that looked into the disaster from 2005 to 2009, as saying that a collision with a submarine could have caused the ferry to sink.
The roll-on roll-off ferry Estonia had been sailing from Estonia’s capital Tallinn and was headed for Stockholm in bad weather. Winds were around 20 meters per second and the waves around 4 meters high, according to the official investigation.
After the bow shield failed, the ferry rapidly filled with water and most of those who died were trapped inside.
16 | The Report • December 2020 • Issue 94
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