Models currently listed on YachtWorld differ in size and length from 42 feet to 70 feet. You can read all about our initial refit HERE.Hylas is a yacht manufacturer that currently has 38 yachts for sale on YachtWorld, including 15 new vessels and 23 used yachts, listed by experienced yacht brokers mainly in the following countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand. No noise, no vibration, no smell, no maintenance. So, we devised a plan to fit a small electric motor into our boat, and add the ability to motor a few miles from time to time. Our boat, is just a little too large and heavy to effectively use this technique. In the past, people used long oars to row their vessels or skull them off the stern. Just enough to get into a marina, or through a small cut into a protected bay. So, we knew we’d need some sort of propulsion, for when the sails came down-but certainly not much. In fact stopping, and exploring, for us was the driving motivation for a sailboat in the first place. But, we weren’t planning to nonstop sail around the world. Many have circumnavigated without them, including modern ocean race boats, which would be disqualified if used. However, history has shown that boats certainly don’t need one. Sure, it has made navigating for many much easier and the rise to captaining your very own vessel much less daunting. Inboard motors have only been common place in the past few decades.
Humans have been sailing for thousands of years, since the first Neolithic captain raised a leaf on a floating log.
We use the word “traditional” here almost ironically. Early on, we dreaded having one onboard, the noise, the smell, the maintenance and cost we’re all deterring factors in our decision to retrofit our sailboat with an electric auxiliary motor instead of a “traditional” diesel. Since the beginning, our boat has not had a diesel motor. So rather than fretting about the future, we wallow in the progress of today. We have dreams, goals, destinations and planned routes, but we know they will undoubtedly change as quickly as shifts in the wind-leaving us no option but to adjust accordingly. The one certainty in our lives is that our futures are uncertain. We love what we do and only wish to do it more. We don’t see stopping this lifestyle anytime soon. In fact the opposite is closer to the truth. Or as we like to put it, “we’re in no hurry to go anywhere, ever.” This however, doesn’t mean we lack motivation or plans. “It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” By connecting these theoretical dots, a future projection can be attained. This mechanism then prioritizes the journey itself-shifting our consciousness from the future, to the present. But perhaps the best way to forecast our future, is to take an honest look into our past and align that with a conscientious reflection of today. In life, we often fester on concerns of tomorrow, next week, a 5 year plan or future retirement. By adjusting your current position, you can alter the forecasted destination. This position is saved and referenced to render a predictive path on screen. The GPS chart plotter found on many boats exemplifies this-at any given time, a half dozen or more satellites are telling you exactly where on the earth you are. That is a good start, but unless you know where you were a few minutes, hours or days ago, you cannot determine your course, and therefore cannot know where it is you are going. Navigating is more than simply knowing exactly where you are in the world. “TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING, YOU MUST FIRST KNOW WHERE WE CAME FROM.” The Journey