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NAS Sailing Center is pleased to announce a new entry in our fleet for charter season 2025, a Lagoon 400 S2 electric hybrid sailing catamaran.

Together with our new electric hybrid sailing catamaran we also announce this blog. Through this blog you will be able to follow the conversion of the boat to electric hybrid propulsion, learn the technical aspects of the boat, get to know all the advantages of maritime electric propulsion, understand how to use the new engines and electric system and many other things about this topic.

We hope you will join our community of enthusiasts, who understand that sailing, in its essence, is a bond between men and nature. If sail we must, it is our responsibility and duty to do it with the utmost respect for the environment.

The Green transition is a necessity. However, if we are talking about sailing, it is also a pleasure, due to the many advantages that marine electric propulsion offers to recreational sailors.

Take as an example the first big, immediately noticeable, difference between a diesel and an electric engine – there is no noise. Imagine a pristine summer morning. You get up a little earlier than your kids and friends on board. You take a brief swim in the crystal-clear sea. HHHHave your coffee and it is time go, maybe to catch the morning breeze. Instead of waking everybody up by starting two smoky gargling diesels, you simply give a little push to the throttle and glide in complete silence out of the anchorage. When you first try it, until you get used to it, it feels almost surreal. You only hear the water gently flowing on the hull. There are no vibrations reverberating through the saloon, no cups rattling on the table. Your friends, who are on their first sailing trip, sleeping in the back cabin, don’t have to cover their heads with pillows. They just enjoy the gentle lull of small morning waves and the sea flowing under the boat.

Silence is not important only for people, it is also important for fish and other marine creatures. Have you ever tried diving even a little, to hear the noisy hum of an engine that seemed right behind your head, just to surface and see a boat in the distance. Sound propagates through water more than four times faster than through air? What is our pleasure in summer, for the underwater world is a cacophony of hundreds of different noises. If we can help reduce that, we have done something good both for ourselves and for the environment.