Process for maximizing speed of marine vessels propelled by natural renewable energy by managing the harvesting, storage and re-use of natural energy

A process or method where an improved marine vessel is comprised of;

• a floating structure which has at least one energy capturing device;
• a motor/generator that acts as a propeller to propel and as a regenerative device to harvest energy;
• an energy storage device to serve as a storage bank that could be used when external energy sources such as wind and solar are not at peak;
• an energy management and control system that monitors and controls energy production, storage and expenditure to maximize the vessel speed over the range;
• whereby said marine vessel uses said technologies and processes integrated to create a zero emission, zero fossil or chemical fueled marine vessel which has an improved speed, where the speed over a long course is significantly increased exploiting the cyclical availability of external wind and solar energy. During high wind and solar energy cycles, significant energy is harvested at a minor compromise to vessel speed and during low wind and solar energy cycles the system expends the harvested energy to significantly increase the average speed over the course. When this happens, relatively little energy is expended to gain a significant increase in speed and distance. This is possible by applying the speed/power characteristics of marine vessel by exploiting the marine engineering principles which allows the use of available energy harvested from external sources more effectively and thus increasing the speed of the vessel.