Hinckley is adding battery banks to its popular Picnic Boat for diesel-electric hybrid power. It's aptly called the SilentJet 40.
“Customers loved the thought of electric propulsion and whisper-quiet running. But they were less enthusiastic about a limited range,” Scott Bryant, Hinckley’s vice president of sales and marketing toldThe hull shape of the Picnic Boat was designed for, well, picnics. The batteries will let owners do sunset cruises on electric power alone. Five years on, Hinckley reckons it has hit the right formula with its brand-new 40 S SilentJet, a hybrid version of its much-loved Picnic Boat.
The design caught on with upper-crust boaters, especially former sailors, all over the country looking for a day boat with panache—forget the center console with outboards. Over the last two-and-a-half decades, as the Picnic Boat has gone through many iterations and upgrades, it’s still identified with Maine as much as LL Bean. The new SilentJet will have the same hull and topsides as Hinckley’s 40-footer, just with the lithium batteries.
And this, according to Bryant, is all done without input from the owner. Hinckley and Twin Disc have jointly developed an advanced automatic switching system that seamlessly manages the diesel/electric operation.
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