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Candela Boats & Ferries C-8 electric hydrofoil flying above the water.

Candela Boats & Ferries C 8

Candela Boats & Ferries
THE BOAT

Lift off the water, and the noise disappears

Step aboard the Candela C-8 and it is the quiet that gets you first. No engine drone, no hull slapping at the chop, no wake unrolling behind. Push past sixteen knots and the boat lifts onto its foils and simply flies, silent and dead level, the far shore suddenly a short cruise away on a single charge. This is the calm of a sail with the range to actually go somewhere, the sort of thing owners tend to describe as closer to gliding than to driving a boat.

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The C-8 — at a glance
Length over all
8.5m
Beam
2.5m
Draft (foils up)
0.5m
Top speed
30kn
Range at 22 kn
57nm
Battery
69kWh
Full specifications ↓
Candela Boats & Ferries C-8 — C8 SG-26
01SWEET SPOT

57 miles. 22 knots. Two and a half hours.

The Candela C-8 peaks its efficiency exactly where you want to cruise: at 22 knots, the foils are fully loaded, drag is cut up to 80 per cent, and the 69 kWh pack delivers 57 nm on a single charge. That is two and a half hours of silent, level flight, with genuine coastal range from a battery a third the size of what a planing electric boat needs to go half the distance. Speed and range, it turns out, pull in the same direction.

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02OPEN WATER

Go fast where others must slow down

Most waterways post speed limits because fast boats leave a wake that erodes shorelines, rocks other vessels and generally makes a nuisance of itself. The Candela C-8 flies above all that: once on its foils, the hull is out of the water and the wake drops to under five centimetres, which on many restricted stretches means the speed limit simply does not apply to you. Quiet, clean, and leaving nothing behind, the C-8 goes further into places that have spent years trying to keep boats like this out.

Candela Boats & Ferries C-8 — CandelaBaltic-9
03C-CONTROLLER

The computer that flies it for you

Push through sixteen knots and the Candela C-8's flight controller takes over the hard part: holding the hull steady, reading the foil's position one hundred times a second, and quietly capping the rate of turn before the foil can stall. What feels like instinct from the helm is actually aerospace-grade envelope protection running invisibly beneath you. The result is a boat that experienced mariners describe as intuitive from the first flight, and newcomers to boating tend to agree.

Full specifications

Every number,
on one page.

Length over all (LOA)
8.5 m
Beam
2.5 m
Draft (foils up)
0.5 m
Draft (foils down)
1.5 m
Weight (incl. battery)
1,750 kg