Women's Match Racing is now an event in the 2012 Olympics to be held in London England.  In match racing one umpire boat and one wing boat are used for each pair of match races.  So, if four sailboats are racing in a match race, then two umpire boats and two wing boats are required. The practical limit for a match race is 12 sailboats boats, which requires 6 umpire boats and 6 wing boats.  Also required are one rescue/repair craft as well as a race committee boat.

Our plan is to use electric outboard powered umpire and wing boats for match racing training centers. With is energy efficient model, we will be utilizing the sale of carbon credits to finance Match Racing Training Centers at 10 locations worldwide to train competitors for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics using green technology.  Two centers will be located in each of the five International Sailing Federation Regions. 

Our hope is to introduce a match racing boat at the Olympics four years from now and have companies donate material and boats for the event.  We would provide for events and training sites that would be financed internationally by the sale of carbon credits to companies desiring to offset their carbon emissions into the atmosphere by constructing venues and boats that do not utilize carbon fuels.

The carbon free concept is based on providing shore based solar photovoltaic panels that will be sized to provide power to recharge all of the batteries on the umpire, wing and support boats.  Excess power from the solar panels will be supplied to the electric power grid.  In extreme northern locations the solar photovoltaic installations can be augmented by wind or tidal turbine power generators. 

Power from the solar panels will be used to charge the Absorbed Glass Matt Batteries used on the boats.  Absorbed Glass Matt Batteries have features that adapt them to marine power usage and possess the ability for quick recharging.  The boat will need to carry 2 group 27 Absorbed Glass Matt 12 volt batteries at a combined weight of 160 pounds.  The boats will be powered with one Torqeedo Remote 121 pound thrust motor.  Each Torqeedo electric outboard motor weighs 40 pounds and has a static thrust of 121 pounds.  Each electric outboard motor has thrust comparable to a 6 HP gas outboard motor.  If there is not much wind during the sailboat races then they will be operated at slow speed. If there are high winds, the displacement hulled sailboats will hit a maximum speed of 4 knots at times.

Torqueedo Cruise 2.0 Remote electric outboard motor

The Model AC-460 Advanced Catamaran Tunnel Hull Boat

Rigid 11 foot inflatable style boats will be used as umpire and wing boats. The umpire boats will be configured to hold two persons and the wing boats will be configured to hold one person.  A complete umpire/wing boat, with twin electric outboards and four Lithium-Ion batteries would cost about $13,699.00, which as around the same cost of a normal gasoline powered umpire boat.