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PlugboatsNominate your candidate for best electric boats in the 2026 Gussies Awards The 7th annual Gustave Trouvé Awards for Excellence in Electric Boats and Boating, ‘The Gussies’ are now open for nominations

10.20

PlugboatsWaVeS 33 – Electric Boat and Boating News October 15, 2026 Plugboats WAVES (Watts, Amps, Volts, Electrons) is a regular collection of electric boat and boating news items that we have

10.15

PlugboatsSolar electric boat takes 5 day cruise powered by sunshine alone Proving the doubters wrong, this couple took their solar electric boat on a 5 day trip along the UK's Thames River on sunshine alone – without ever stopping for onshore charging.

10.12

PlugboatsCompetr: efficient electric outboard born of innovative student thinking Italian university students used their successes in the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge to develop the new Competr electric outboard motor

10.05

PlugboatsNew Sunreef 100 luxury sailing cat is also a floating environmental science classroom In a naval engineering marvel that marries clean technologies of the past and future with luxurious surroundings and an unrivalled

10.03

PlugboatsElectric Boat Experience comes to Sausalito, California The people who brought you the Lake Berryessa Electric Boat Festival in California’s wine district last May are now presenting

09.25

PlugboatsWAVES 32: Electric Boats and Boating News September 24, 2026 Plugboats WAVES (Watts, Amps, Volts, Electrons) is a regular collection of electric boat and boating news items that we have

09.25

PlugboatsJOOOL system looks to drive big growth in electrified sailboats Two of the world’s largest sailboat builders – Fountaine Pajot and Beneteau – have joined forces on the JOOOL brand

09.21

PlugboatsE1 electric speedboat racing championships come to Africa in Luanda, Angola The E1 Electric Speedboat Racing Championships came to Africa for the 5th race of their third season with a high

09.16

PlugboatsNew ePropulsion ‘eCore’ simplifies boat energy management If you’ve ever peeked inside the workings of an ‘overnight’ boat – one that has basic appliances like refrigerators and

09.14

A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay