Orphie 29

One section of the Cannes Yachting Festival was dedicated to hybrid or 100% electric boats under ten meters (33 feet) in length. A good twenty models were on display at the end of the central dock, and this was where we discovered the Orphie 29. This small multihull of a new kind is very beamy and sits low on the water. It looks like a racing boat with very tapered hulls, but without a mast. The center hull looks like a motor cruiser dayboat with a beautiful hardtop-covered cockpit and a very narrow bow extending with a streamlined windshield. All decks are teak-coated and surrounded by a rub-rail in varnished mahogany, giving the air of a vintage motorboat. The sterns of the floats are equipped with sugarscoops, and the transom of the central hull supports a Torqeedo outboard motor. In short, the Orphie 29 looks like nothing you’ve ever seen before! 

The Orphie 29 moves silently across the water with no CO2 emissions thanks to its electric drivetrain. 

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