Solar Powered Boat Sea Trial : Silent 60 

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 RU-vid than yourself.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

We rented an electric boat last year and went on holidays. Such a relaxing way to enjoy the environment.

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.

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

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!

Pretty Coastline. The water sound is very nice - just like the sound of waves on the seashore. That is brilliant.

Perfection! What a boat. Silent, no fumes just lovely.

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.

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 😆

This would actually make a great live aboard yacht as well as cruiser, great all around! ✌👍💚

I'm really looking forward to the first Video about the Sunreef 100 Eco.

More of the silent 60 please Nick, would be good to see the instruments showing charging. its defo the future.

Great to see/hear the boat actually running at sea. Thanks Nick!

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!

Impresive technology. Just like EV cars it takes some planning to travel, but it looks so right in this time and age 😀 Thanks Nick 😀

What a peaceful way too spend a weekend away from it all. Its then new way too travel now. Thank you Nick.

Silence is golden!

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!

Really nice, and these will only get better as battery and solar technology improves.

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 😀

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!

One of these would certainly be my go to if I ever win the lottery!

That is amazing! You could sale from California to Hawaii!! 🐠🌺

Very Beautiful Yacht with Very low Running cost Solar power. So much Space. NICK BIG THANKS FOR SHOWING US THEM VIDEOS. 👍👍👍🚤🚤😎😎

I think perhaps 10 months of the year in UK waters the generator would be pretty handy ! Nice one Nick , thank you.

Peace and QUITE - two of the hardest things to find . The silent yacht offers both.

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.

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 😎✌🏻🏴‍☠️

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. 👍

The future of yachting, very exciting.

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.

Hi Nick. Wow, a sea trial with Silent. Look forward to seeing the 80. Great video thanks 😊

Superb video about this new wonder of technology!!! My dream to get one!

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

Thank you sir, the video I have been waiting for you to do.

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.

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.

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.

Been waiting to see this for years Absolutely fantastic

This boat is impressive and one of my favorites!!

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.

Thanks for sharing. Was looking forward to this

Awesome. Thanks!

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.

Idea boat to be on at Christmas ( Silent night )

Renewable energy for the win! Thanks for sharing!

It's amazing... I love it!

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.

These solar boats are always awesome!

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

Love this!

great idea. Thank You

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. 🌼🌺🌸

Mr Mortlock scooped you on this one ;-)

Absolutely brilliant and equal parts amazing. We’ve, thankfully, come to this.........

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.

I love this boat.

Absolutely awesome. It is my dream to cruise around on a solar powered yacht. Thank you very much for sharing.

This give more sense that electric sportscar, great boat and video!

My word, it almost blew out my eardrums! :)

Any other manufacturer that isn't using a massive solar cell and batteries is now antiquated.

Spacious and blissfully silent :)

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.

Lithium-ion is the new "oil". Thanks for the great video of a fantastic boat.

I’m just a little jealous Nick. Thank you for bringing us along

Very interesting, will need to see the maintenance of these drives.

Hope we will see cheap solar boats soon!

Hello. Have a safe blessed day! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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 👍

Wow the boat sure is quiet! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🛥🛥🛥🛥🛥🛥

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!

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.

Nice boat

Interior and bridge Would be nice to see that beautiful boat beautiful video

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. ✌

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 🛥👍👍👍👍

More more more! We need more content on this boat please

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.

Brilliant boat nice views 🚤🛥⛵️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Very interesting to see the use of modern technology; not 100% sure it will be everyone's cup of tea just yet.

Wow, thanks for this. Onya Nick.

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.

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!

thats brilliant to use battery power at night means you could potentially run 24 hours great as usual!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is lovely. :D Would love to see a cahrter expereince on one of these Nick! :D

I think on the solar 120 you can get a 800kw battery pack and the panels on that boat generate 40kw per hour.

wow, just wow..

... love these 🙂

Veery nice and quiet boat. Would've loved to see the kite in action tho

Great, now I would love to see a Silent 80 trideck :-)

To think this is just the begining of this tech in boating. I'm super curious to see what future brings.

I'm in Canada and I would love to live on a boat like this, the question I have is our winters and being able to charge. I'm not very far north, but on the southern tip of lake ontario. Our winters are mild, but we still get weeks of overcast days.

Yet another video work of art Nick. Just one question though. If for instance, you did use it at night to get from A to B. You get there in the morning and the batteries are flat. If it's a very sunny day, how long would the panels take to whack up the batteries to full?

Nice 😀