Yellowfin

[Major Catastrophe]

Doing a search I see no one has talked about Yellowfin for over a year. But reading a slightly out of date Mobo magazine I see they went bust last year, but the intellectual property has been secured to sell on.

Has anyone heard if Yellowfin has secured new backing/owner?

It is such a great concept.

 

[mjf]

I agree with you - I thought this might be the future.

maybe its too complex with variable pitch and hydraulic systems to go wrong under the water

 

[Major Catastrophe]

I was under the impression the technology worked and they just ran out of money as they had to abandon the stock market listing, due to the downturn.

The main thing about Yellowfin, besides its amazing manoeuvrability, was that it could run with any engine, which only needed to be half the size a conventional drive needed.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

And looked to be a plausible retrofit option (albeit potentially expensive) to existing shaft drive boats.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

I don't think it will be a retro fit for shaft drives. Maybe for outdrives. It is a surface drive and the engine is almost directly connected to it.

I just want to be able to do this.

 

[Richard Shead]

Can you not do that already?

I don't think it will be a retro fit for shaft drives. Maybe for outdrives. It is a surface drive and the engine is almost directly connected to it.

I just want to be able to do this.

I shall give you a few hints and tips on how us "Thames boys" do it with all those locks.......

Joking aside, amazing to watch!

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Doing a search I see no one has talked about Yellowfin for over a year. But reading a slightly out of date Mobo magazine I see they went bust last year, but the intellectual property has been secured to sell on.

Has anyone heard if Yellowfin has secured new backing/owner?

It is such a great concept.

FFS, £13m down the swanee. I guess that'll be some venture capital company's money. The company has been saying virtually since it started in 2001 that it had engine partners lined up but, seeing as no manufacturer ever showed their hand, I guess there were technical reasons why the drive wouldn't work across a wide range of engines and boats or maybe Yellowfin were just asking too much for the technology.
As for the administrator thinking it has a potential £2.6bn market, I think he's whistling in the wind. The fact that there has been no announcement of a buyer picking up the assets from the administrator probably says it all as far as what the marine industry thinks about the technology.

 

[late-night-lochin]

I don't think it will be a retro fit for shaft drives. Maybe for outdrives. It is a surface drive and the engine is almost directly connected to it.

I just want to be able to do this.

I remember seeing details of this product on the web. My initial thoughts were that it was too good to be true.

However if it was / is (if it gets reincarnated) true, it would be worth any ammount of butchery to double the power output from the drives for the same fuel input to the engine.

I also remember reading that even if you had a singel engine, there would be some sort of gearbox arrangement to drive two yellowfin props.

Where's my angle grinder?

 

[Major Catastrophe]

FFS, £13m down the swanee. I guess that'll be some venture capital company's money. The company has been saying virtually since it started in 2001 that it had engine partners lined up but, seeing as no manufacturer ever showed their hand, I guess there were technical reasons why the drive wouldn't work across a wide range of engines and boats or maybe Yellowfin were just asking too much for the technology.
As for the administrator thinking it has a potential £2.6bn market, I think he's whistling in the wind. The fact that there has been no announcement of a buyer picking up the assets from the administrator probably says it all as far as what the marine industry thinks about the technology.

At one time VW was providing the engines