The 2024 DAME Award winners have been introduced with a brand new lifejacket clinching the highest prize on Amsterdam the place the ceremony is held yearly
Crusing tools has featured strongly within the checklist of 2024 DAME Award winners, offered within the morning of Tuesday 19 November 2024 at a spectacular opening ceremony to mark the opening of Metstrade 24, the marine trade’s largest annual tools exhibition, in Amsterdam.
A panel of knowledgeable judges shortlisted 58 new merchandise from 28 international locations to decide on the winners of one of the best new boating product designs not too long ago launched onto the worldwide marine market.
General Winner within the competitors was awarded to TeamO’s spectacular Offshore 150N Hello-Elevate Lifejacket & Harness, which the ten-person jury described as “a radical re-think of lifejacket expertise”.
The Yanmar E saildrive, in the meantime, gained the Propulsion Class, together with a newly launched Environmental Award. The judges say they had been impressed with the way in which through which the Yanmar E saildrive now presents yacht house owners an ‘straightforward pathway in direction of electrical primary propulsion’.
Different notable crusing class winners included Raymarine’s RSW wired sensible wind transducer (within the Navigation and Communication class), which robotically corrects for pitch, roll, mast twist, sail upwash; and Karver Techniques’ KJS12 rope clutch, which the jury famous pays “shut consideration and sturdy development to each element for elevated sturdiness, diminished rope put on, higher usability”.
A full round-up of all of the DAME Awards winners and nominees with function in Yachting Month-to-month’s February 2025 situation.
Metstrade 24 takes place at RAI Amsterdam from 19-21 November and contains greater than 1,500 exhibitors throughout 11 massive halls.
2024 DAME Award winners
General winner: TeamO Offshore 150N Hello-Elevate Lifejacket & HarnessPersonal tools winner: TeamO Offshore 150N Hello-Elevate Lifejacket & HarnessComfort and leisure afloat winner: Indel Webasto Marine Slim-Match Cooling UnitNavigation & communication winner: Raymarine RSW Wired Sensible Wind transducerElectronic and electrical methods winner: Egis Cell Electrical XD Sequence NMEA-2000 Controllable Distant Battery Switching & Cost ManagementPropulsion & dynamics winner: YANMAR Marine Worldwide E-SaildriveDeck tools winner: Karver Techniques KJS12 Karver rope clutchSecurity & security aboard winner: AirMarker R.FourShoreside tools & supplies winner: North Sails NPL RENEWEnvironmental Dame Design Award Winners: CMP Group SMartyr SCP Anode + YANMAR Marine Worldwide E-Saildrive
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