SILENT 60 solar electric catamaran is a smaller sister of a flagman ship of the yard, SILENT 80. One size less, but it still has one of the biggest living area among sixtyfeeters. SILENT 60 can be easily handled by two people. Furthermore, she offers the possibility to upgrade the tender from 3,8m to 4,2m through the optional hydraulic platform, which also includes a sofa with a flippable backrest. For adventurers, additional water toys, sups, kayaks and e-bikes can be stored in the bridge deck.
As is true for all SILENT YACHTS, a distinctive feature of SILENT 60 catamaran is a high performance hull form that is optimized with CFD study, to make a maximum benefit of it's long waterline and reverse bow. All Silent Yachts hulls are light and very stiff for energy efficiency but also for a safety. Use of modern technologies like carbon fiber, vacuum infusion of resin, lightweight panels as well as careful selection of the best available in the market equipment made it possible to keep displacement about 10 tons less than competitors.
In terms of safety, solar electric catamaran frees us from the greatest risk of power boats - helplessness in case of lack of diesel or bad diesel quality. Sailing on SILENT yachts you have always Plan B, all the vital electric systems onboard have also redundancy.
Thermo isolated hull, shaded windows and other smart solutions make the use of energy on SILENT 60 electric catamaran effective. And huge solar panel area of top world supplier that gives 18kWp energy and up to 300kW Li-Ion battery pack supplies both, electric PM motors and household consumption, there is also 100kW diesel generator for emergency or higher speeds.
"The SILENT 60 is designed with an extended range and can cruise efficiently for up to 100 miles a day for weeks at a time. The arrangement of the components enables the system to power all on board systems without need of fuel to power a generator" - MarineIndustryNews in UK