Join us at the Annapolis Boat Show October 12-15 2023

This will be our first time on American soil talking about our new HopYacht 30. We have more enquiries from North America than any other region in the world and if you are able to get to the show it would be great to meet you in person. HopYacht Founders Mary-Clare and Paul Tomes will both be at the show and we have exciting news about the new 2024 model. You can find the HopYacht stand at Tent L10 and the exhibition is open from 10am each day.

PS. You might even get to meet the owners of HopYacht 004 currently in production, who will be visiting the show too! See you in Annapolis.

Multihulls World Test Sail our HopYacht 30

To coincide with the Multihulls World Magazine 'Forever Green' edition, seasoned yachting journalist Nobert Conchin joined us in Athens to test sail our HopYacht 30. We held our breath when he stepped on board. Would he like the boat? Would he enjoy the concept of the single sail, on what he described as (best said with a French accent) a 'mini yacht?'. Here's an extract from the lead in to his test sail report'

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'This is a catamaran that has ripped up the rulebook, and come up with a (r)evolutionary concept: For the first time, a combination of comfort and liveability has been brought together in an ultra-easy-to-handle boat under 10 meters in length, with a focus on relaxation and pleasure, all with zero CO2 emissions'. Norbert Conchin

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The Forever Green special edition #2 is now available online. To access the full test sail report on our HopYacht 30 plus enjoy a 20% discount on an annual subscription to the Multihulls World magazine click here. Enter the code HOP20 on checkout.

No shore-power? ... No sweat!

In June 2023, we picked up the first HopYacht 30 shipped to Greece from the Port of Piraeus and delivered the boat to its new home in Preveza. Whilst Navionics and Savvy Navvy have made route planning so much easier, this would be our first significant voyage in an all-electric yacht and the natural instinct was scroll through both apps, to look for harbours and marinas en route that might have shore-power. However, we soon discovered with 1600 W of solar power topping up the batteries, this would prove to be more than enough for most of the voyage.

If you’re keen to know how we sailed just over 200 nautical miles with variable winds and only plugging into shore power twice, we captured the highlights on video. We’ve included full details of power consumption in different weather conditions and the status of the batteries each day. There is also stunning footage of our journey through the Corinth Canal

It’s hard to compress 10 days of sailing into a short production, so the video is 15 minutes long and we have repeated the infographics included in the video below.

All told a hugely successful trip with the added advantage of no noise no fumes and no diesel bill at the end!