Yachting USA – September 2019

ELECTRIC BOOGIE

The Radinn G2X electric jetboard reportedly can run for 45 minutes in virtual silence, hitting 27 knots.

by kim kavin

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adinn, a swedish company whose name

is short for radical innovation, built its fi rst

electric jetboard in 2015. People liked riding

along coastlines in silence, and the company

learned important lessons about manufacturing. ¶ “The

biggest problem was that we weren’t a big company with

established service centers around the world, but our clients

have yachts and go from port to port,” says CEO Alex Fuehrling.

“We learned that we needed to design it very modular, so

we could ship just one module if a repair is needed.” ¶ The

second generation of that electric jetboard is the Radinn

G2X, which became available about a year ago. So far, about

150 have been built, and Fuehrling says the company will

soon start producing 100 a month, with manufacturing in

The Radinn G2X electric jetboard has a swap-out battery pack, so yacht owners can charge one while the other is in use.

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