Silent-Yachts founder, Michael Köhler founder opens up about his technology and usage of solar power in his yachts business.
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Image: Köhler

Michael, following a busy couple of years promoting, selling and building your new line-up of models, can you provide an overview of your current production"

Across our own facilities in Italy and with our partners in Turkey and Thailand, we?re currently building 19 yachts comprising 10 units of the 60/62 series, six 80 series, the flagship 120 and two Silent Vision F 82 hybrid catamarans.

Since late last year, we?ve already delivered the first three units of the Silent 60. This year, we hope to deliver about 10 units of the Silent 60, three of the Silent 80 and two or three of the Silent VisionF 82. We?re convinced we can achieve this.
In total, we?ve already put 15 boats in the water when you count the first three 60s, our Solarwave 46 from 2009 and the Silent 64 and 55, our first production models.

The Silent-Yachts facility in Fano, Italy, covers over four hectares. Image: Köhler

Can you give an overview of the Silent-Yachts facilities in Fano and which models you produce there"

The site has about 22,000sqm (2.2 hectares) of covered facilities in four big sheds and about the same area outside the sheds. It has a double set of moulds for the Silent 60 and a single set for the Silent 80. The number of workers ...