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At Sun Powered Yachts we're here to help you go solar. Throughout our website we have useful information and this is where we add our news updates. It might be a topic we delve deeper into helping to answer some of those FAQs we touch on, we'll provide updates on solar panel options, what the team are up to and what boatshows we'll be at.
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