Yachting World

THE HOT LIST

Our extraordinary 2020 finished with no METS equipment show and the unsurprising announcement that the world’s largest indoor boat show in Düsseldorf was postponed until April. However, the lack of organised exhibitions to showcase new products failed to slow the yards and gear manufacturers in their efforts to bring out a profusion of appealing new designs. Here’s our pick of the bunch…

TEMO 450

DAME overall winner

Sometimes when you see new products, however clever, you wonder what problem they were designed to solve. Not so with the TEMO. The DAME jury was unanimous in voting this new electric outboard engine product the outright winner. The French company behind this well thought-out, cleverly designed product has come up with an ingenious solution-based idea

It is also great to see that small, start-up companies are still able to invent new ideas and bring them to market, even in such a difficult year. During the height of the pandemic, the company managed to raise €600,000 to bring this to market, continued their R&D over the summer and, since actively marketing the TEMO this autumn,

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