C-8

Summary

Best Suited For

• Coastal Cruising

  From the published figures: day boat · LOA 8.5 m

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Speed, Power & Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

27.9 ft (8.5 m)

Hull length

—

LWL

—

Beam

8.2 ft (2.5 m)

Draft (min)

1.6 ft (0.5 m)

Draft (max)

4.9 ft (1.5 m)

Air draft

—

Displacement

4,299 lb (1,950 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

—

Heads

—

Berths

—

Performance

Maximum speed

27 kn

Cruising speed

22 kn

Range

57 nm

Guests

—

Crew

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

—

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

Candela

Propulsion type

electric (hydrofoil)

Fuel capacity

—

Fresh water capacity

—

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Hull material

Carbon fiber

Deck material

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Passengers

5 passengers + 1 driver

Motor

Candela C-Pod (45/50 kW)

Charging

11 kW AC: 6.5 h 0-100%; 135 kW DC

Draft by mode

0.5 m in shallow mode; 0.9 m in planing mode; 0.8 m while foiling; 1.5 m while not foiling, foils extended

Battery

69 kWh – Powered by Polestar

Range

57 NM at cruising speed +3 NM at 4 kn in limp home mode

Displacement basis

weight as printed (1950 kg); no load condition stated

About Candela

Premium production

Swedish builder of electric hydrofoil boats founded in Stockholm in 2014 — the 8.5-metre C-8 leisure boat and the 12-metre P-12 in Voyager and Business versions, flying on computer-controlled carbon-fibre foils driven by its own C-Pod electric motors.

Candela traces itself to 2014, when its founder Gustav Hasselskog set out to answer a simple question: why can't electric boats be better than fossil-fuel ones? The first boat, the C-7, needed five years of research and development on the control system, because an electric hydrofoil boat is inherently unstable and can only fly if a computer keeps adjusting the foils; Hasselskog calls the first flight magical. The company describes itself as designed and made in Sweden, with a team of more than 200 people from over 20 nationalities working in hydrodynamics, control theory, machine learning and structural engineering. Its stated mission is to eliminate fossil fuels from lakes and oceans, and its latest step is the P-12, which it calls the world's first long-range, high-speed electric hydrofoil ferry; the P-12 'Nova' is already in service in Stockholm.

The Candela Range

Every model Candela publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. P-12 Business39.3 ft
2. P-12 Voyager39.3 ft
3. C-8· this model27.9 ft

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