50 feet and 850hp is mid-sized now? Its all relative I guess, but that's not really the crew I run with. Filling up their 800 gallon tanks would cost more than my entire electric conversion will. The big detail they leave out of these materials is the battery capacity, they say the two 23kw (!) motors will run the boat at 8 knots, but for how many miles? Who is willing to bet its under 8 and the whole electric drive system will be removed within five years.
The stated range of a 1000 miles on 800 or so gallons of fuel is a pretty big tale to tell, and all that junk about a 'hybrid' hull that is a cross between a round bilge displacement boat and a V-bottom planing boat, come on, and just because it wasn't enough of a contradiction they throw in prop tunnels just to make things even less efficient.
If docking without the engines running is really so important that all that extra machinery is required then that's great, but at this point a project like this is so cynical and so removed from anything resembling 'efficient' or the implied 'green' of being a 'hybrid' it becomes a joke. If I had the seven figures to throw around on a yacht I'd do a little more due diligence than talking with the salesman and try to find something really innovative, something that pushes the state of the art and does something new.
I hate to keep piling on, I mean, I do love boats, any boat, and I'd sure take a ride on this guy just like anything else and the guy that also loves boats and loves this would probably shouldn't have nice things to says about my old sailboat and that's fine too; but the styling, its like an over grown circa 1995 Sea Ray. There is so much really striking and beautiful design out there in the 'mid-range' yacht world, this thing doesn't do it for me.
David
Too rich for my blood, plus I think I may have a bridge clearance problem. From BoatTest.com:
"Azimut is electrifying the yachting world with its new Magellano line of fuel-efficient long-range cruisers, including this 51' 4" (15.64 m) Magellano 50. Introduced at the Genoa Boat Show in October, she is the mid-sized entry in the new series (a 74 is already available, and a 40 is in the works). Not only is the 50 a radical departure visually from Azimut's Med-style cruisers, noted for their speed, sleek styling and sybaritic accommodations, but it also has something few other yachts at this level have -- the option of hybrid power: Azimut's Easy Hybrid system adds twin 23-kW electric motors to the Magellano 50's twin Cummins MerCruiser QSB 5.9 diesels, and will move the yacht at up to 8 knots under battery power alone, in near-silence, says the company."
Here's the link: http://www.boattest.com/boats/boat_video.aspx?id=2388
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