Neat looking diesel/solar hybrid. Motorboat and Yachting has a brief writeup also.

Length Overall - 32ft 9in (9.99m)
Beam - 11ft 5in (3.49m)
Displacement - 4.8 tonnes light
Air Draught - Approx 9ft (2.7m) MBY est
Fuel Capacity - 95 imp gal (430 litres)
Range - 431 miles (diesel); 20nm (electric) read more »

Here's a very nice looking, 33' commercial diesel-electric hybrid setup. Design goal calls for a battery range of about 20 miles, which would be enough for a lot of little day trips on its own. read more »

This is a neat outfit that does a lot of different work with marine outfitting. Note the hybrid propulsion page... kind of a neat setup.

They also have their ToolBoat. Cute, solar powered little workboat.

A commercial electric power system. Seems mostly designed for sail craft up to the 27-30' range, but some other stuff is offered.

Warren and Robin's Island Pilot DSe, their new Pepi, has arrived in the U.S.  read more »

Another company approaching hybrid (diesel/electric) power for boats.

Hybrid Marine is an electronic design house specialising in control systems using microcontroller technology. Our parallel hybrid is the result of a five year research program and provides an integrated hybrid system for small marine craft.

Prototype systems have been developed and tested in our workshops and during sea trials. We are now working with Beta Marine LTD to provide a complete parallel hybrid system and plan to be in production by the end of 2008.

If you remember Warren and Robin and their Pepi, we have more news. The Pepi is the Mark V39 originally built by Brad Indicott and now making another round of the Great Loop. Pepi is currently for sale and they have the Island Pilot DSe hull #1 on order.

African Cats has some nice looking production catamarans. What really interested me was their "Green Motion" line of hybrid drive systems. They seem to really emphasis regeneration of power while under sail with the idea of oversizing the motor so that they can better regenerate.

They also have wind generators, RIBs, and several other products that might be worth a look. Their web page is a bit "pdf happy" in my opinion (only use pdf when you really need to, please!), but still has a lot of info. read more »

I don't put a lot of "for sale" stuff on here, but I thought this one was worth an exception. We covered Warren and Robin's Great Loop cruise log a few weeks back. They have been underway for three months or so and have decided to sell their boat. No, they aren't giving up already, rather they like it so much, they want a bigger boat.

Several factors make this really interesting to me: read more »