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Hinckley Dasher
Soundings
|December 2017
Hinckley Yachts took the wraps off its all-electric Dasher at the Newport International Boat Show in September.
A new concept for the iconic boat builder, the Dasher is being marketed as the world’s first fully electric luxury yacht.
The 28½-footer is built atop a lightweight epoxy-carbon hull and draws only 2 feet, 4 inches. To save weight, Hinckley trims the Dasher with “artisanal teak” — a lightweight, hand-painted epoxy composite with varnished-teak looks, but without the traditional maintenance costs. (I thought it was virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.)
This story is from the December 2017 edition of Soundings.
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