I was standing on a floating dock on a Pacific-ocean inlet, a place where it’s obvious why motorboats are such an environmental disaster. Fortunately lots of other people have noticed too and it looks increasingly that more people will be able to enjoy Messing About In Boats without feeling like they’re making Greta Thunberg justifiably angry at them.
Hm, this piece got kind of long. Spoiler: I’m here mostly to talk about electric hydrofoil boats from Candela, in Sweden, which look like a genuinely new thing in the world. But I do spend a lot of words setting up (separately) the electric-boat and hydrofoil propositions, which