Give or treat yourself to a subscription to Boats in Motion print + digital and for only 39 euros a year you get the magazine at home plus read it on your PC, smartphone and tablet. With a sea of advantages.
Looking under the dunnage of a Sunseeker, from the gritty Hawk 38 to the large yachts in the 100 line, there is a technical secret that saves the environment and your wallet. For a full 20 years, the British giant has fitted Wavestream bilge filters manufactured by Wave International as standard.
Why should this choice also affect those who sail on a boat? The answer is twofold: love of the sea and the environment, certainly, but also the need to avoid hefty fines.
Every boater knows the problem: something always ends up in the bilge. Some water, condensation residue, but often also traces of engine oil, diesel fuel or paint particles. When the automatic bilge pump kicks in, whether you’re at the dock or in the roadstead, it drains everything outboard. The trouble is, it only takes a single drop of oil in half a liter of water to generate pollution of 40 parts per million (ppm). The law is strict: the limit is usually 15 ppm, but it often drops to 5 ppm. In addition, it is very difficult to hide, since all you need to do is follow the classic iridescent trail, and the penalties can be severe.
As Sunseeker (an “early adopter” who has been installing them on its boats for 20 years) guessed, the solution is a dedicated filter. The Wavestream system installs between the pump and the sea discharge-it is compact and easy to manage (just change the cartridge). Wave International’s technology, which is celebrating 25 years in business, can trap oil, diesel and even microplastics and antifouling particles that come off the bilge, discharging only clean water into the sea.
Installing such a filter is not only an ethical matter of not polluting the seas we love; it is low-cost insurance against accidental spills that, with today’s regulations, are not tolerated.
Sign up for our Newsletter
Powerboats, its stories, from small open to motoryachts. Sign up now for our free newsletter and receive the best news selected by the editorial staff each week. Enter your email below, agree to the Privacy Policy and click the “sign me up” button.
We present the most renowned companies and people who have been working for years to improve the boat. We asked the leading players to tell us about their special features and the services they offer. We are confident that you
Our focus in this “Improving the Boat” Special on safety. That is, a guide to choosing the tools and materials one needs to have in order to best deal with a critical situation or moment of danger. What to
Welcome to the special Classic Boat Archive section, where Boats by Motor opens for you its paper archive where hundreds and hundreds of boats we have tested, presented and reviewed in the magazine’s more than 35-year history are kept. Technical
We present the most renowned companies and people who have been working for years to improve the boat. We asked the leading players to tell us about their special features and the services they offer. We are confident that you
