2018 was an exciting year for Moonwave and her crew. During the first quarter of the year, we finished up our extensive refit in Brittany [Bretagne]. It was such a nice feeling to see all the bits and pieces to take shape when they got mounted and installed. We left Brittany beginning

Our solar panel installation is hitting the news… SuperyachtTechnology did a nice article featuring the solar installation on board Moonwave – check it out: “Style Leader in solar panels” The article is available online but will also be in the printed magazine

Check out the recent article about Moonwave by Torqeedo: Silent and sustainable – Torqeedo’s Deep Blue Hybrid system optimizes luxury catamarans [click on the link] It also comes with a video:  

The work for the new daggerboards [Moonwave – New Daggerboards] and the new Torqeedo Saildrives [Moonwave – Deep Blue Hybrid System] required structural carbon work on the hulls, with lots of carbon dust… As electrical and electronics equipment don’t like carbon dust at al

Moonwave’s second transatlantic crossing is in the books – the first time East to West. We had a good passage but next time if possible will stick to a normal “schedule” with departure from the Canary Islands between Nov to Feb. We left Lanzarote a bit “out of season” for transa

As mentioned in one of my previous posts [Moonwave – Deep Blue Hybrid System] – it was part of refit to get Moonwave equipped with a serious amount of solar panels. In the last years the solar panels made huge performance progress and the solar cells themselves got lighter

Moonwave – Electric Propulsion & Hybrid System After years of development and working close with the engineers from Torqeedo by sharing our needs and requirements for Moonwave – we now have the complete Deep Blue Hybrid System installed on board. We had already several

METS – the world largest Marine Equipment Trade Show (B2B) To explain it in one word – METS is really “huge”. About 1.400 expeditors and about 22.000 professional visitors. We spend all three days to meet our suppliers & technicians and this was awesome. As we are doing some modif

Congratulations to Torqeedo for winning the Pittman Innovation Award from Sail Magazine for 2016 for their Deep Blue Hybrid System – check out the article. We are very excited to be part of the project and Moonwave is really looking great on the cover (and couple of other pages)

Here just a short update as we get often questions about the hybrid system as the system is very new and exciting and didn’t work out that well on other boats that tried earlier. We have the pleasure to have one of the first hybrid systems that really works and love to do regene