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This year’s show, the 48th edition, will have more electric options than ever, with 70+ exhibitors of electric powerboats, electric sailboats, electric propulsion systems and electric ‘water toys’. The Plugboats Guide gives a short overview of them all, along with a directory with links to all of the electric exhibitors’ websites.

ServoProp electric saildrive installed by owners Dan Deckert and Kika Mevs as they make the boat totally fossil-fuel-free (FFF).

The Sailing Uma channel has 433,000 subscribers who avidly follow the couple’s adventures sailing, living aboard and maintaining / refitting the 1972 Pearson 36 they bought in 2014 because they ‘craved experiences over possessions, freedom over convention’. They wanted to live minimally and travel indefinitely and chose to write their own story and live aboard a sailboat.

A new survey of US boat owners shows that just more than half – 54% – would consider making their next boat an electric one. The survey also finds that just more than 2 out of 3 owners (68%) say a brand’s commitment to sustainability impacts their purchase decision.

The 2025 U.S. Boat Owners Sustainability Study, done by Unmuted Consumer Insights, gathered and analyzed responses from more than 750 boat owners across the U.S., representing a wide spectrum of recreational boating types and uses: freshwater fishing boats, saltwater fishing boats, center consoles, runabouts, bowriders, speed/high performance boats, pontoons, cabin cruisers, houseboats and sailboats.

Florida is moving big time into the electric yacht world as boutique brokerage YachtSalesInternational of Fort Lauderdale welcomes a 100% electric Greenline 40 with an mCrate drive train by Ingenity of Orlando.

The yacht was ordered by a YSI customer in Annapolis, who will soon be enjoying the comfort and luxury of silent and fume-free cruising on the Chesapeake Bay and beyond.

Taiga Motors, the Canadian electric jetski that is the official personal watercraft for the E1 Series of electric speedboat races, has been hard at work behind the scenes with a slew of new innovations.

Taiga was purchased last May by the company associated with Vita and Evoy electric boats and motors and the Aqua superPower marine charging network. One of the places the new owners saw a huge opportunity was in the state-of-the art Taiga manufacturing facility in Montreal. It has both assembly and automated battery production lines with a capacity to build up to 8,000 units per year. (That includes both the Orca jetskis and the electric snowmobiles that were Taiga’s first product.)

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