Solar Powered Boat Sea Trial : Silent 60
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- We take a solar powered boat out for a sea trial, and it isn't even sunny! This is amazing.
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Nick, can I say a BIG thank you for this? I've been completely enamored with these solar yachts and no one has put as much info on them on CZcams than yourself.
You're very welcome 🙂
Thank you Nick. I've been wanting to see a real-world run of one of these from more than a year. As always, you have provided and I'm very happy to see this video. Thank you again!
My pleasure!
Tristan has a series on his channel of a charter on one of these(sorry Nick for plugging another channel).
@superyachtcaptain
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Fantastic. I love the idea of really sociable boating, where you can do your own thing without causing grief to other water users. Leaving the dock at 5 am but not starting up a diesel is the ultimate in being a good neighbour.
Yeah... but you have no idea what is the process recycling these batteries and solar panel. Have you?
@@pr0xb0ct that is nothing to do with what he mentioned.
@@pr0xb0ct Easy to recycle. These batteries are close to 99% recyclable. Check Redwood Materials.
Thanks Nick for the video. You delivered as promised 😊👍
Please bear in mind, that the solar panels still produce energy, also on a cloudy day like it was during the trail. For sure way off oeak but still decent.
Unfortunate the audience here is not ready yet it seems. The same funny arguments like with electric cars a few years back and sometimes still today. As I'm driving Teslas for several years now, I know all of the strange arguments and calculations. People just don't get it still. Kind of sad in the meantime.
Anyway. Great Yacht, great tech with literally INFINITE range at NO fuel cost. Sailing 2.0 in a way.
And yes, after an awful lot of nm *) , the batteries may need to get replaced one day. But so does the rigging, the sails etc on a sailboat not to speak of the running costs on a conventional boat.
At >250kWh with at least 2000 full cycles (no Hardcore peak power drain, no high power charging at high C rates) we are talking about something in the hundreds of thousands of nm lifetime, if SY does their battery management right. I'm sure they can provide some estimate on that
Yes indeed these catamarans are silent and expansive and the technologies are rapidly improving. That being said, I do like looking across the great expanses of waters from high above the ocean depths on my MY. The Silent series would make an ideal charter craft, so who knows. I must say those inset seating area(s) on the port and starboard decks look wonderfully comfortable. Have a wonderful week.
I love these boats. Imagine gliding round the Med in this all summer without paying for a drop of fuel. More cash to spend on booze!
puts out enough to cover hotel loads if you run the ac. Not enough to move around much without running the generator. The math is easy but making it seem better than reality is also easy (that's their marketing). This is the reality czcams.com/video/_8qghxsd5QY/video.html . Still an awesome boat and worth every penny, but burning 50 gals / day of diesel to charge up the lithiums sponsored by genocide in Africa isn't going to make you feel better than burning diesel in a marine engine, assuming you want to understand the actual cost of this tech (for now).
@@Frindleeguy Maybe the 60 isnt good for more than day cruising but the 80 with essentially similar power draw but much larger solar area is actually where the real tradeoff comes into play?
But the company hasnt shown the 80 literally anywhere and its getting kind of aggravating actually....
It's a "YES from me!!!"
Thanks Nick! After watching the evolution of electric vessels for over a decade, it seems as if these electric yachts have finally been adopted by yachting companies. It's wonderful to watch the progress.
Nick, I've got to say that technology has advanced so fast that it's unbelievable what they've come up with. And not just in the Marine industry.
Perfection! What a boat. Silent, no fumes just lovely.
When not running with a 4 knot current, it uses about 40kw (240kw at max speed) and produces at best 12kw for 6 hours a day. 9 kw for another 4 hours. 3kw for another 2. So you might make on a sunny day 114 kwh, and use about 1000kwh if you're moving, or easily 2500kwh if you want to go 7-8 knots instead of 5-6 . Trust, if you're gonna be doing anything but anchoring, you'll be making some fumes. If you math that out given the way generators work, you're looking at 40-60 gals/day. Of course, the philosophy of use for now is move at 5 knots for 6 hours a day and just use 4-6 gals of diesel if it's partly cloudy - cloudy, or zip around for 1 hour a day and charge back up at the dock. This is not a zero emissions vessel. I'd still take it any day of the week.
Hey, this looks like an amazing yacht. Watching this on my birthday and thinking of booking myself a yacht charter next year because of how infatuated your channel has made me with boats. Great Video!
Happy birthday! 🎉
It's my birthday today 13 of July in Australia! And I adore yachts under 100 feet! A nice 70 footer would do me just fine! Live on it! Help the homeless in Melbourne during the week and cruise on weekend! I just need to win powerball unfortunately for that to happen! Happy sailing all 🛥⚓ and more importantly God bless all 🙏❤ we look at these people as rich but a homeless person looks at us with a roof over our head food water and a car as rich! They play lotto to have a home i play to win a yacht! Take care everyone and let's appreciate what we do have that hundreds of millions don't! Half the world lives of a dollar a day! Now that is frightning!!❤
Impresive technology. Just like EV cars it takes some planning to travel, but it looks so right in this time and age 😀 Thanks Nick 😀
We rented an electric boat last year and went on holidays. Such a relaxing way to enjoy the environment.
This would actually make a great live aboard yacht as well as cruiser, great all around! ✌👍💚
The noise is amazing, or more the silence is fantastic. I would still be skeptical of running out of charge but I’m sure with the help of the generator it would be perfectly fine. Give it 25 years and like electric cars these boats will be dominating the market! Great sea trial also Nick, thanks!
Really nice, and these will only get better as battery and solar technology improves.
Pretty Coastline. The water sound is very nice - just like the sound of waves on the seashore. That is brilliant.
Very Beautiful Yacht with Very low Running cost Solar power. So much Space. NICK BIG THANKS FOR SHOWING US THEM VIDEOS. 👍👍👍🚤🚤😎😎
Thanks for watching!
@@AQUAHOLIC Always do. Nick your program is Absolutely Brilliant. It's Yacht education. 👍👍👍🚤🚤
This has to be the way the way to go, at the moment anyway. It’s like sailing without all the string, winches and sails 😆
I believe you can get it speced with an extendable kite in a front locker to help pull you along!
Those enormous battery packs are very non environmental friendly to produce, so not really
@@fluim0102 neither is the fuel burnt on a conventional boat
@@fluim0102 Yeah im looking forward to the next 10 years of battery technology. We will move away from expensive rare materials to easily accessible ones. (The salt based battery comes to mind)
@@JonathanSmith87 but oil companies don’t use child labor to extract their resources. Something eco-nuts seem to gloss over with batteries. The majority of the cobalt reserves used in lithium batteries are in the DRC in Africa, which China owns the right to most of these mines. Not saying that OPEC countries are without their own faults, but China is never going to improve its human rights abuses. So saying we just need better batteries is moot, if the majority are all still manufactured in China.
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Same goes for the solar panels. Business is booming Xinjiang with these policies
The arrays are still producing power in cloudy conditions. Would have been interesting to see how much they were producing compared to the 15 kw being used.
17 kWp
In that weather probably 1/10th of their rated output. Enough to power house loads.
Saw another video on this boat yesterday... it was burning about 30kw/h with appliances, AC and making 5 knots (at least 6-7 people onboard and it looked warm out). It was in dense clouds, making about 5-6kw/h, if I remember correctly. The captain mentioned that once it got under 50% of battery, he'd turn on the generator, as they were in open water (near Ibeza). He could run as far as 30%, but he liked to have an extra cushion for safety in case of generator/solar/charger problems.
I'm sure I got some of the numbers wrong... here's a link to the video where they went through the details: czcams.com/video/_8qghxsd5QY/video.html
@@aarongranger This Boat is some kind of an expensive Hoax. Also this Boat got introduced on the Nautistyles Channel last Year. The CEO had a very hard time even to explain the numbers with all the electric components/solar corrrectly. So maybe for a short Daytrip, but never for long Range Cruising.
@@TheMave34 Meanwhile, one has already crossed the Atlantic... 🙂
Great to see/hear the boat actually running at sea. Thanks Nick!
Nick, I agree with your employment of the yacht. Imagine waking up every morning to a new view out of the window. Life would be very interesting.
What a stunning yacht that's fully embracing eco technology! Hybrid and fully electric vessels is the obvious way forward! A great video too Nick!
I'm really looking forward to the first Video about the Sunreef 100 Eco.
What a peaceful way too spend a weekend away from it all. Its then new way too travel now. Thank you Nick.
I have a boat on the Norfolk broads, and think for the river with a max speed of 6 mph a electric boat would be perfect 😀
Thanks for sharing the trip with us.
With such a large capacity, it starts to make good sense to sail electrically, and with a generator you do not have to worry about range.
Great video Nick. 👍
With solar power and a diesel generator...diesel usage would be a tiny fraction of a diesel powered boat this size.
Makes me wonder just how much longer Sunseeker, Princess, Fairline, et al, can keep offering only 2x big diesels with not even a hint of hybrid propulsion (if only for the first 20-30 miles of the day)? They're already looking very backward compared with this Silent 60!
Solaryatchs are in the same game and Greenline in Australia do some solar heavy electric hybrids..
But i totally get what you say when you see a multi million vessel with ice power and ICE generators but no solar to even maintain electrical systems and house lithium battery systems when theres no shore power available, without someone being around to run the engines if they have super alternators or their old fashioned generators.all at great cost...and not good for main engines running sub optimally.
BTW for confused US readers @4.5Litres is one Uk gallon.
and the price of a litre of Diesel on the Uk has been £1.90 plus per Litre for non red diesel.
Changing to Basalt fiber rather than GRP would reduce the mouldings wt by nearly half and increase strength and damage resistance as well as being a greener cheaper material to produce.
A change of propellor design could also boost the performance and efficiency by 15-40% given an optimised prop or rim driven propulsor.
@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 at my local Tesco diesel was just below £2 a liter. I won't be surprised if it breaks that barrier soon :-(
@@mrxmry3264
Yes its hard when you have no alternatives. .. but this has been coming for a long time and Governments and businesses and our societies themselves have effectively been sticking their fingers in their ears and going nahnanaha.. its a measure our our species's cognitive dissonance that so many just let the can be kicked down the road for 40+ years.
Till the next thug sees a chance and takes the toys away trying to get their own way.
Most politicians and economists have no idea of how interconnected and limiting natural systems are or how to maintain and repair them. 🤷🏻♂️
Almost all of these boats offer lithium storage batteries for the hotel loads - and more are going hybrid. But full solar boats are always a compromise and you are stuck at low speeds.
The main advantage of the cells for storage is that even when you do have to run the generators you are getting maximum efficiency. Once they hit 90% you turn off the generator.
Solar panel efficiency and battery technology is advancing almost every year. Just a few years ago solar panels were about 10% efficient, and now Tesla panels for homes are up to 20%. A new company in California has developed new solar cells that are 45% efficient, are cheaper to make, and weigh 75% less. Lithium Ion batteries are slowly going away and being replaced with Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries. They last almost ten times longer. Tesla has a new patent on lithium processing that uses no harmful chemicals and they are mining the Saltan Sea in California. If you read an article on these technologies that are three years old, your information is obsolete. Great video Nick. Thanks.
More of the silent 60 please Nick, would be good to see the instruments showing charging. its defo the future.
For people like me who are rarely on a yacht or boat, it is so nice to see what 6.5 knots is in real life. I've read about it, but thats not experiencing it. I've been dreaming about having one of these, they are the absolute best money can buy, environmentally.
I wish people would look at the supply chain for battery manufacturing and disposal. It is truly shocking. Governments really need to come clean on this. It's not environmentally friendly in the slightest.
@@garyneedham1282 it is slightly.
What does that statement even mean precisely? The environment itself isn’t even “friendly”when you look at volcanoes, meteorites,animals eating each other, viruses, and the sun baking everything in radioactive rays until it either dies or mutates. Everything comes with a trade off.
Some pollution for less carbon which hopefully will prevent the planet turning into an oven seems like a decent compromise to me.
@@garyneedham1282 I wish people would look at the supply chain for oil production refinery and transporting it and the supply chain for supporting it mine iron ore transporting it making steel from it to make pipelines building oil tankers
Lithium mining in the Atacama region of Chile has driven out the indigenous people and towns are now deserted. So the rich concentrate on decarbonisation at the expense of the poor. As usual, out of sight, out of mind.
@@garyneedham1282 and how many people have been displaced for oil?fracking uses a lot of sand see what is happening where thy mine the sand how many people are driven off their land for agro industrie uranium/gold/etc mining
That is amazing! You could sale from California to Hawaii!! 🐠🌺
I think perhaps 10 months of the year in UK waters the generator would be pretty handy ! Nice one Nick , thank you.
Superb video about this new wonder of technology!!! My dream to get one!
Great video. For sure this will be a part of the future. 5x6 solar panels wit 450 W peak each, will produce 13,5kWh every hour. So the motors can be powered entirely by the sun.
Too bad there was no chop to speak of, it would have been nice to see how the Silent does in some rougher waters. But it is an amazing bit of kit. I am really starting to take points off of all the boats I see that are still not going out with any kind of solar at all...not even a couple of panels to help out with the house load. I see so much progress in the boating industry when it comes to solar and other efforts to reduce fossil fuel usage, and yet so many manufacturers are just not joining in. And frankly, the same goes for the RV industry as well...too many manufacturers are just not emphasizing solar enough. ✌
Yeah, way too many boats and RVs that can’t use half of their systems without either shore power or an engine running because their electrical system is shit
czcams.com/video/p1MGXn0c1ZE/video.html this shows how its in rougher conditions but there are other videos to be found, fair its not the same boat but still a catermaran
For as long as it will have a "fossil fuel usage reduction" not many people will care enough (I don't at all).
Cost efficiency on the other hand...
@@grzegorzwhateverski8451 It’s also just comfort. No need for engine maintenance, no noise, all that stuff
@@TrolloTV right. Still, the carbon footprint is rather low on priorities list here.
It kind of feels strange at the same time. Your motoring along through the water with only the sound of the water to be heard. No sails instead using 2 electric motors. I'm guessing it would take a few trips out to get use to it all. The future is here. Thank you so much Nick for taking us along on this sea trial
The future of yachting, very exciting.
I like how many times Nick corrects himself that it's an "electric motor" and not an engine, then proceeds to call them engines. :) It really takes some getting used to.
engine isn't wrong. engine: a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion.
I agree, an engine is a motor, and a motor is an engine whether electric or other fuel. 👍✌
@@TOM-C. If an engine had to be an internal combustion engine, you wouldn't call it an internal combustion engine, right? It would just be an engine :)
One of these would certainly be my go to if I ever win the lottery!
It's settled: my retirement plan is to sell everything and buy a solar catamaran. Great livable space, stable, low maintenance, no running costs... I got about 25-30 years to go, by then for sure the range and efficiency will be ridiculous. Imagine adding solar panels on each side that unfold like a spacecraft from boxes under the solar roof, with a rotation point so you can set the vessel to "harvest" mode, and it will orient itself towards the sun, extend the panels and rotate them for maximum efficiency. If they haven't made it by then I will for sure try to get it done. It's doable right now with minimal engineering.
Peace and QUITE - two of the hardest things to find . The silent yacht offers both.
I really think these are the kind of boats that should be used for whale watching. (Not designed for living but more a flat deck style). Absolutely brilliantly designed.
They already are in many areas and as ferries on many rivers and Delta cities in tropical zones...
Also Swiss and German lakes.
Just search on U tube for videos.Use the words Solar Catamaran ferry ..tourism sight seeing.
Hi Nick, Now thats a nice sea trail in silence with this Silent 60 a great yacht and what a show the only thing I hear is the water at the bow and at the rear great and a nice idear sail at night and charge at day light when the sun is around Thank you Nick a great show to start this week
Thank you to Silent yachts Co. and Nick for this as my spouse and I are currently looking at the plans for our next decade and looking at the realities of living aboard a silent yacht versus having property that is somewhere besides the frozen North of Canada!
You're very welcome
Thank you sir, the video I have been waiting for you to do.
You're welcome
Hi Nick. Wow, a sea trial with Silent. Look forward to seeing the 80. Great video thanks 😊
I've loved these boats for some time now - lovely look at it from your perspective, Nick. So much room one could swing a cat in both hands.
It's wonderful seeing/hearing one of these underway, I think there were a couple of moments on the sugar scoop when I think I could hear the whine of the motors on the edge of my hearing but I'm not even sure on that.
Renewable energy for the win! Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome!
I’m just a little jealous Nick. Thank you for bringing us along
You're very welcome! 🙂
Lithium-ion is the new "oil". Thanks for the great video of a fantastic boat.
This give more sense that electric sportscar, great boat and video!
Absolutely brilliant and equal parts amazing. We’ve, thankfully, come to this.........
When I first started watching your channel , I fell in love with all the usual boats , princess , sunseeker , fairline , bering , Galeon , but now we live in these criminal times with the cost of living sky rocketing , who apart from the rich can afford to rum a 50ft plus boat now , but I've fell in love with this boat , it's the future , yes OK you still have to have alot of money to buy a boat , but this is definitely the future , love this boat , and really enjoyed your sea trial... brilliant Nick 🛥👍👍👍👍
To be fair, who but the rich could afford to run a 50ft plus boat before!? 😄 But I take your point. Glad you're enjoying the channel. 🙂
Absolutely awesome. It is my dream to cruise around on a solar powered yacht. Thank you very much for sharing.
Our pleasure!
It's amazing... I love it!
It’s certainly a cool yacht and very silent 🤪
If you want to island hop in sunny climates, this has to be perfect doesn’t if?
That’s for taking us along 👍
It’s great to hear just the water wind and nature on an electric boat. More brands need to follow Silent boats lead, for both big and small boats. Brilliant Nick. Thanks for sharing 😎✌🏻🏴☠️
There's so much potential for boats and green tech, perhaps more so even than cars. All that wind, sun and wave action on the open ocean 24/7, 365, just waiting to be harnessed. Once solid-state batteries are commercially viable it'll be bye-bye combustion!
Thank you so much for this video. I was just arguing the exact point you made about how to use the boat on a forum recently.
I would love it if you did a similar video for the Northman 1200 Electric.
Very interesting to see the use of modern technology; not 100% sure it will be everyone's cup of tea just yet.
Mr Mortlock scooped you on this one ;-)
lets not forget that solar panels put out some power even under a cloudy sky. ok, that is not as much as it would be in direct sunlight, but it is not zero.
also, you can get a kite sail for this boat and take advantage of the wind.
Great video. Many videos tour this boat, but there aren't that many videos out there showing it IN ACTION with real people showing how it runs and what it sounds like and feels like to be on board.
Glad you enjoyed it!
thats brilliant to use battery power at night means you could potentially run 24 hours great as usual!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow the boat sure is quiet! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🛥🛥🛥🛥🛥🛥
Idea boat to be on at Christmas ( Silent night )
These solar boats are always awesome!
Hello. Have a safe blessed day! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Always great to see more footage of the Silent Yachts. Any chance you could do a tour of the Sunreef Eco line? A 60 or 80 perhaps.
Silence is golden!
Spacious and blissfully silent :)
Wow, thanks for this. Onya Nick.
My pleasure!
@@AQUAHOLIC I did hear that these Silent Yachts did an Atlantic crossing on minimal fuel, would love to know how they would go on a Pacific crossing from Melbourne to Los Angeles on the big pond. Cheers mate.
Love this!
I hope Nick doesn't mind but apart from Nautistyles there are Silent yatch's own technical and promotional presentations on U-tube and the greatest depth technical dive was done early on with the founder designers by the the guy from Yatch's for sale.. there is a recorded live online Q&A with the founder... As well as three videos.
Nautistyles have done the 55 and this vessel they also want to go back for a kite assisted test.
And Super Yatch captain has been holidaying on a early 64' version. .. but has yet to do a detailed technical dive.
This is lovely. :D
Would love to see a cahrter expereince on one of these Nick! :D
Very interesting, will need to see the maintenance of these drives.
Hope we will see cheap solar boats soon!
Awesome. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Been waiting to see this for years
Absolutely fantastic
Hello. This is so interesting! It does make a lot of sense to think about solar powered options. I just never thought about it on boats before. Thank you for showing this to us. It is an eye opener. 🌼🌺🌸
"listen to that engine roar ..." Nick, I think you mean "motor murmer". Very impressive. Keep up the brilliant work 👏
Thanks for sharing. Was looking forward to this
My word, it almost blew out my eardrums! :)
Nice boat
great idea. Thank You
Glad you liked it!
Any other manufacturer that isn't using a massive solar cell and batteries is now antiquated.
This boat is impressive and one of my favorites!!
Great, now I would love to see a Silent 80 trideck :-)
You and me both!
Interior and bridge Would be nice to see that beautiful boat beautiful video
There is a full tour already on the channel 🙂
14kw to move 29 tons, not bad at all! Seems my napkin math was actually high. So glad you were able to get this. I've been wanting to see some real world performance since I first heard about Silent.
It's too bad some of the higher performance sailing cat builders (whose boats could easily move faster on less than half that much power) seem to have stock in oil or something and are scared of replacing the weight of engines and fuel tanks with batteries and motors. Maybe they should do some actual research before the vomit b.s. scare tactics all over their youtube channels about the dangers of going electric...
Windelo are offering both their Basalt hulled fast cats with E power regen under sail and large solar arrays plus a back up generator if your ever in need . 😎
To think this is just the begining of this tech in boating. I'm super curious to see what future brings.
I think on the solar 120 you can get a 800kw battery pack and the panels on that boat generate 40kw per hour.
Engine! I may have mentioned it once but I think I got away with it. Don’t mention the E ! All jokes aside this is the future and the future is here, very impressive piece of kit. Nice video Nick.
Veery nice and quiet boat. Would've loved to see the kite in action tho
An engine running a generator rather than prop by far the more efficient way to use a engine as it only runs at a single speed. The advantage of a single speed engine is the reduction of fuel/air control mechanism, lower coefficient of friction since lubricants are most effective at a single speed, great reduction of peak loads so you have a lighter engine and etc.
This is amazing technology. Slow speeds, but trawlers are popular for a reason. Great. Thank God. Wonderful.
This is the future, lower cost, little pollution and still good performance.
Awesome tour and description however I would still love to have a yacht like this but with wind sails for added alternative eco travel and assurance.
What is the rating for this vessel. Is a "A" for ocean going ?? I found the answer it is CE Certified "A"