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Hybrid Marine Power on Boats

By |2018-03-02T16:26:25+00:00September 13th, 2016|Blog|

Setting the pace – and pulse in hybrid marine power technology: leading the fleet is the USS Zumwalt Class destroyer. But Sarum Hydraulics asks how realistic is hybrid marine power technology on smaller vessels? Hybrid marine power on boats – the buzzword in 2016 is hybrid. There’s good reason that the one word that keeps popping up [...]

Is water jet propulsion blasting its way into the mainstream?

By |2018-03-02T16:27:22+00:00September 23rd, 2015|Blog|

At Lymington Yacht Haven, Sarum Hydraulics regularly spots the most beautiful Hinckley 36 foot Picnic Boat, fitted with a pair of simply monstrous 400 horsepower Hamilton water jet drives. What’s the story on this boat? Where are we with jet drives? Has their time come for the mass market? A stroll round Southampton Boat Show [...]

Super Yacht Hydraulics

By |2018-03-02T16:28:02+00:00August 19th, 2015|Blog|

Hedonism, high seas and Hydraulics; how this summer’s super yachts are steering hydraulic innovation. With the summer press full of photographs of celebrities adrift on azure seas aboard some of the world’s most advanced super yachts, let us not forget the amount of pulling, pushing, raising, lowering and manoeuvring that is working hard behind the [...]

Cowes. A tradition of craftsmanship that adapts as the world changes.

By |2018-03-02T16:25:31+00:00August 11th, 2015|Blog|

Yachts, Airbus and flying boats. How Cowes is keeping its marine and aerospace heritage alive. This week is Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, the classic sailing regatta that has been running since 1826. At Sarum Hydraulics we love the spectacle and with some 8000 competitors, up to 1000 boats racing and 40 races each day, [...]

STP stickers and Mark 2 Capri’s. The seventies are back, and we’ve got the fuel additives to prove it.

By |2018-03-02T16:25:43+00:00August 3rd, 2015|Blog|

Rugged, no nonsense, and barely a scrap of corrosion to boot; our MB series low-pressure, high-displacement 316 stainless and polymer hand pump is a serious bit of kit. With this professional component ideal for such a diverse range of fluids, Sarum Hydraulics are increasingly observing customers using our MB series hand pump for fuel additive [...]

The Incredible Hulks go sailing.

By |2018-03-02T16:34:53+00:00July 27th, 2015|Blog|

How the Americas Cup pushes man, machine and manual hydraulics to the limit. After 30 years of crafting Micropac® hydraulic hand pumps, we constantly have to remind customers not to be over optimistic with how much energy a human can generate. Source: yachtboatnews.com Not so with the latest Americas Cup yachts, where the [...]

Cops and Robbers at Seawork 2015

By |2018-03-02T16:28:56+00:00June 24th, 2015|Blog|

Seawork 2015, the definitive event for the marine engineering industries leading movers and shakers, docked in the Port of Southampton last week. From global communications equipment to cutting edge working vessels berthed on the pontoon, Seawork International brings together industry buyers, sellers and designers for a world-class three day Expo widely regarded as the essential [...]

The Vasa reminds us that nothing changes with a muddled design process.

By |2018-03-02T16:18:26+00:00October 13th, 2014|Blog|

The Vasa reminds us that nothing changes with a muddled design process.                                                                                       image source:ulkotours,com Much as we read about Public Sector IT contracts which have been a disaster when specifications are continually changed, has design ever been any different? It is just so risky to change your mind once the show is on the [...]

Seawork Exhibition Southampton- a dose of reality in the Yachting dream.

By |2018-03-02T16:29:36+00:00June 18th, 2014|Blog|

Sometimes I think that the whole boating industry is peddling a big dream. Those sun filled days on perfect seas. I have had lots of wonderful days. Just the weather and that pesky salt water that get in the way on some of the others! The “Seawork” exhibition in Southampton (this year 10/11/12 June) always [...]

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