{"id":36957,"date":"2010-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/reviews\/review\/seaway-greenline-33-hybrid\/"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T15:31:53","slug":"seaway-greenline-33-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/reviews\/steel-boats\/seaway-greenline-33-hybrid","title":{"rendered":"Seaway Greenline 33 Hybrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greenline Hybrid might not be the very first diesel-electric powered motorboat, but it is the first one you might be able to afford and that&#8217;s the very important bit. In fact, starting at under \u00a3100,000 this is one of the best value 30ft cruisers on the market full stop.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Click on the video above to find out more about the boat&#8217;s <strong>hybrid system<\/strong> but what we have here is a diesel engine installation that can provide up to 14 knots, with an electric engine and generator providing slow, inland and marina speed power. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>This electric power comes from a bank of batteries which can be charged via the diesel engine or a huge solar panel that covers the wheelhouse roof. In theory, if the sun stays out, you could rely on solar-charged electric power for your cruising. This eco-motorboating ideal does mean cruising at slow speeds but for pottering and inland use it is a real option.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The Greenline comes from the massive and very influential Seaway yard, which has utilised one of its sailboat hulls to provide the slippery hydro-dynamics required for the comparatively small amount of electric horsepower. Underway the hull worked well in both diesel and electric modes with a soft, if wet, upwind ride.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>On board the low price does not transfer into a bleak, empty interior. There is only one cabin but the fit out is good and there are lots of smart features, from the scissor berths forward to the drop-down transom aft. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The saloon is designed to open up to the cockpit with the aft galley serving both. By day this creates a stylish and very cool run of social space, but sealed up at night the saloon retains that cosy feel we want on board.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"o-container youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xrha-qMJ-8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" id=\"keystone-player\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks good and won\u2019t cost the Earth. Is this new hybrid-powered Greenline the shape of motorboating\u2019s future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":24926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"review_manufacturer":[127,251],"review_category":[45],"review_type":[],"review_award":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42029,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36957\/revisions\/42029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36957"},{"taxonomy":"review_manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_manufacturer?post=36957"},{"taxonomy":"review_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_category?post=36957"},{"taxonomy":"review_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_type?post=36957"},{"taxonomy":"review_award","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mby.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_award?post=36957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}