Tout sur : Electric

At the big charter company The Moorings/Sunsail, the new OCEAN charter is being translated into Forever Green actions: the electric outboard ePropulsion Spirit 1.0 (1 kW power) has been adopted following a very conclusive test season in Greece over the course of last summer. 

Designers Jean Marc Piaton and Clément Bercault have created a trimaran powered by a 50 kW Torqeedo Deep Blue electric motor. Thanks to its moderate displacement and especially the narrowness of its hulls, this multihull can maintain a cruising speed of 10 to 12 knots with a range of 30 nautical miles.

The electric multihull market is still rather limited, especially when we talk about a real cruising catamaran. Because he wasn’t finding the right shoe to fit, one man decided to create, almost from scratch, his own project, to transform am internal combustion engined powercat into one with an electric propulsion system. An amazing transformation, to say the least. Test location : St Petersburg (Florida - USA)Conditions : Calm sea, 3 knots of wind