Vision Marine Sets Electric


Speed Record at 116 mph Photo - Instagram @visionmarine.technologies


Word got out that Canada’s Vision Marine Technologies would be heading to the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout to break the electric boating speed record. Their 2022 run set the benchmark at 109 mph with a custom-built 32- foot Hellkatt catamaran powered by a pair of their own E-Motion 180 electric outboards.


For 2023, spectators were expecting a return of their all- white Hellkat, but the company had another surprise - a sleek carbon fiber S2 Powerboats 966 catamaran driven by Shaun Torrente Racing (STR) in partnership with Charleston Composites, Raymarine, and Weismann Transmission.


The record attempts were made during the


Shootout’s ‘kilo runs’ on Saturday and Sunday. Kilo runs are the cornerstone of the event and use a 1 km/0.75 mile straightaway on a close course. Boats must enter the run below 40 mph and then can accelerate to max speed before the 1 km/0.75 mile limit.


Torrente and team first ran a 111 mph pass, before making a second run at 116 mph and firmly establishing themselves as the leader in high-performance electric boating.


Lifetime


Achievement Award for


Gerard Dijkstra


Gerard Dijkstra received a Lifetime Achievement Award


ISO/TC188 small craft committee chair named


Craig Scholten, American Boat & Yacht Council (ABYC) technical vice president, has been reappointed as chair of the International Organisation for Standardisation technical committee (ISO/TC) 188 small craft.


Scholten, who has chaired the committee for the past three-year term, will assume the role until the end of 2026.


“I am pleased and honoured to serve another three-year term as chair of ISO/TC188,“ says Scholten. “We have made excellent improvements to enhance boating safety and made major gains in standardising global boatbuilding requirements. Boating is enjoyed around the world, and our work has a major impact on future products as well as the satisfaction of the experience.”


on the pening day of the In-Water HISWA Boat Show in the Netherlands for his legacy as a round-the-world sailor, navigator and designer of a massive sailing and motor yacht fleet.


Dijkstra’s fame began in the 1970s as a participant in the Whitbread The World Race, the forerunner of The Ocean Race.


As a designer, the studio in Amsterdam that bears his name created the three- masted Maltese Falcon with its revolutionary Dynarig, the Clipper Stad Amsterdam, and the aluminium Bestevaer sailing and motor yachts. A self-taught designer, Dijkstra looks back on an impressive oeuvre with the most diverse projects in which he often played a pioneering role. In addition to pleasure yachts and superyachts, Dijkstra designed a massive fleet of work vessels.


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