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? Full test in our next Forever Green Special Edition N°24. ? Shipyards offering hybrid propulsion systems are promising significantly reduced fuel consumption, silent sailing and intelligent complementarity between sailing and motor sailing... all rather convincing arguments that we wanted to test on the water for 24 hours aboard a Leopard 46 Electric Drive. Setting out from Saint-Raphaël on France's Mediterranean coast, we embarked on an unpretentious mini-cruise, where we not only tested a hybrid catamaran equipped with the Joool system (identical to that used by Fountaine Pajot) but also noted the charging and energy consumption. Even the tender - a Highfield 340 E-Propulsion - was electric. So, did we fire up the generator or not? Find out in our next Forever Green Special Edition N°24. ? Technical specifications: Builder: Robertson & Caine (South Africa) Architect: Alexander Simonis Length overall: 47'6" (14.48 m) Beam: 24'1" (7.35 m) Draft: 5'5" (1.65 m) Sail area: 1,554 sq ft (144.4 m²) Displacement: 37,940 lbs (17,209 kg) Motors: 2 x 25 kW Batteries: 2 x 27 kWh Fresh water: 185 US gal (700 l) CE Certification: Category A ? Become a FREE SUBSCRIBER to Multihulls World's YouTube page now - https://www.youtube.com/c/MultihullsWorld ? Log on to our website to discover over 600 multihulls tests! Subscribe to our newsletter to take advantage of our promotions and boat show invitations! https://www.multihulls-world.com/ ? Follow us on Facebook! https://m.facebook.com/MultihullsWorldMag/?locale2=fr_FR ? Discover us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/multihulls_world/ ? Follow our multi news on X https://twitter.com/multihullsworld?lang=fr ? Let's talk about business https://www.linkedin.com/company/multicoques-mag-multihulls-world/ ? Like us on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@multihullsworldmag #multihullsworld #yachting #multihull #cruising #bluewater #sailing #sailcruising #seatrial #boatreview #bluewatersailing #boat #boatlife #boating #sailingday #magazine #youtube #tiktok #catamaran @LeopardCatamaran #leopardcatamarans #emmanuelvandeth #forevergreen #electricboat #agay #leopard46electricdrive

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It's getting warmer and greener and nature seems at peace with all flowers blossoming and birds flying and singing all day long.. At night there's an orchestra from the frogs ? and crickets ?, sometimes I think they compete for the loudest singer trophy ? ?? This place is so reach in biodiversity that it's painful to believe that it's surrounded by marinas from which a lot of pollution, toxicity is generated. But that wouldn't be enough, so there are fish farms at every corner of each bay along the channel and next to villages and towns (please give thoughts on swimming in this area or any swimming area that's packed with fish farms...even hotels put on signs that you are swimming at your own responsibility...and they don't mean "bodyguardless" beaches) . We humans are really something. Getting back to happy thoughts now... Some flamingos ?? were also paying some occasional visits behind the marina when we were at the yard (they are like me, when the temperatures drop they fly back to the south..only I don't have wings to follow..if I had ??) and some cows ? too would take their turn to model by Oshun's spot and grace us with their presence... The land turtles no longer felt intimidated by our presence and stay still expecting to become invisible ? now they even walk towards me, if the fence wasn't there they would walk to my lap I guess ?? Now in the water, we see dolphins ? too messing with the work of the fishermen around the bay (these two will be enemies for infinity and beyond I guess ?????). Sweet life, it's all around us, let's take care of it. #shorts