This new model, belatedly presented for the first time at September’s Cannes Yachting Festival, is taking up the torch of the brand’s first model, the Silent 64. That was the catamaran that became the first electric propulsion multihull to have crossed the Atlantic. A few years ago, it was quite a feat... One that the Silent 60, which is much more technologically and technically advanced, could repeat without difficulty.
Test location: Porto Adriano, Mallorca, Spain
Conditions: Wind 5 to 10 knots, calm sea
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