28 Speed
Silent Yachts · Electric · ultra luxury
Price on request
Request a quoteHigh-performance sibling to Silent Yachts' cruising catamarans — a foil-assisted monohull-style speedboat with surface-piercing propellers, a notable departure from the rest of the Silent range. Twin 100kW eD-QDrive motors, 100kWh battery topped up by built-in solar. Grabbed attention at the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival with a claimed 60+ knot top speed. Price not disclosed as of the 2023 source.
Specifications
- Length
- 8.6 m
- Battery
- 100 kWh
- Motor power
- 200 kW
- Top speed
- 60 knots
- Range
- 70 nm
Powertrain options
eD-QDrive
- Motors
- 2x
- Power
- 200 kW
- Battery
- 100 kWh (unspecified brand)
- Top speed
- 60 kn
- Range
- 70 nm
Foil-assisted hull with surface-piercing propellers — a notable performance departure from the rest of the Silent Yachts range. Price undisclosed as of 2023.
What a buyer should know
The outlier in the Silent range
Everything else Silent Yachts builds is a solar catamaran designed to cross oceans at displacement pace. The 28 Speed is the opposite: a foil-assisted, surface-piercing-propeller speedboat with twin eD-QDrive motors totalling 200 kW and a 100 kWh pack, shown at Cannes in 2022 with a claimed top speed above 60 knots. If you are choosing between this and a Silent 60 or 80, you are not really comparing boats — this is a statement tender or a high-performance toy, not a cruiser.
Reading the numbers
The 70 nm range and the 60-knot claim belong to opposite ends of the throttle. On a 100 kWh pack, 200 kW of installed power drains the battery in roughly half an hour at full output, so the quoted range is a slow-speed figure and hard running will be measured in minutes, not hours. That is the standard trade in electric performance boats, but it is unusually stark here.
The larger caveat is status. No price has been disclosed, the headline speed is a builder claim rather than an independently verified figure, and this is a boat that has drawn show attention rather than an established production record. Anyone seriously interested should ask for a current build status, a price, and a measured speed run before treating it as a purchasable product.
Written from the builder’s published specifications and the wider market, not from testing the boat ourselves. Always confirm figures with the manufacturer before committing.