Delphia 10 (Electric)

The inland-waterway case

Sold with a 60 kW electric shaft drive on a hull also offered with diesel, the Delphia 10 is built for a specific and rather good use case: French, Dutch, German and Italian inland waterways, where speed limits are low, locks are frequent, and marinas increasingly offer shore power. On that duty an electric shaft drive is not a compromise but an upgrade — no exhaust in the cockpit at a lock queue, no idling noise, and a duty cycle mild enough that a modest battery lasts a day. Two cabins and four berths make it a credible week-away boat for a couple with occasional guests.

What is missing, and what it costs

The critical gap is that no battery capacity is published for this configuration. For a canal cruiser that is the number that decides everything — hours between charges, whether a long lock-free stretch is comfortable, whether an overnight on shore power resets you fully. Ask for it in kWh before ordering.

The €269,000 shown is the base list price, and the electric drivetrain is likely to carry a premium over the diesel entry spec; confirm the delivered figure. Note also that Delphia sits within a large conventional boatbuilding group, which is reassuring for dealer coverage and parts but means the electric variant is a line item rather than the company's core expertise.