Marine & Yacht

Land was only ever half the job.

Integrated solar is now a standard fitting on modern catamarans and superyachts. Cape Town is fast becoming the place they come to be refit and maintained. We're building the crew to meet them at the dock.

Why this line exists

Solar-electric yachting stopped being a novelty.

Sunreef Yachts and Silent Yachts, among others, now build solar hull sides, biminis and superstructures into standard production models, not one-off showcase builds.

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Superyachts afloat worldwide · SuperYacht Times
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Peak cell efficiency, Sunreef's integrated marine panels
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Solar-electric boat market by 2031 · Allied Market Research
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Weight per m² of marine-integrated panel, vs 8–15kg standard
Cape Town's moment

The refit hub is forming in our harbour.

The V&A Waterfront is building Quay 7, sub-Saharan Africa's first purpose-built superyacht marina, a R230 million investment with direct access to the Syncrolift and Robinson Dry Dock. The Waterfront welcomed 35 superyacht visits in the 2024/25 season alone, a number that has grown steadily since 2009 and is accelerating as vessels reroute around the Cape to avoid the Red Sea.

South Africa is already second only to France in luxury catamaran production, and supplies an estimated 30–40% of the world's superyacht crew. The boats are being built here. Increasingly, they're staying here too, some for six to twelve months at a time. Every one of them has solar on deck, and every one of them needs it looked after.

Catamaran berthed at the V&A Waterfront, Cape TownV&A Waterfront · Cape Town
Same discipline, new deck

What changes at sea. What doesn't.

Salt, not just dust

Marine arrays foul with salt crystallisation, not dry soiling, and they foul faster. The chemistry of the clean has to change; the discipline behind it doesn't.

The surface is the boat

An integrated panel is often bonded straight into the hull, deck or gelcoat. Get the method wrong and you don't just lose output, you damage the vessel.

ISCA training, applied

Our ISCA Foundation training covers safe method, live-system awareness and surface-appropriate technique, the same fundamentals that make a rooftop technician trustworthy on a superstructure.

Documentation the crew expects

Charter and owner-crew operations run on checklists and logs. Every visit gets the same photographic, before-and-after report our land clients already receive.

The work, on the water

Where the panels actually live.

Solar-electric catamaran with a full rooftop array, under wayIntegrated rooftop array
Building this line now

Bringing a berth into the schedule?

We're onboarding our first marine clients in Cape Town harbours. Tell us about the vessel and where it's berthed.

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