Testimonials

Peter de Klerk: Northwind 40

Klerk Yacht (KYS) is an all-round yacht service company in Medemblik, the Netherlands. Peter de Klerk refitted a sailing yacht, a Northwind 40, for one of his clients in 2007. Ever since then the owner has Peter make changes to his yacht almost every year to make it even better and more complete. For instance, the owner requested of Peter to install an JT-70 in the hull of the Northwind 40. “The installation isn’t very difficult. After all, no tunnel is required. And the pump installation is very flexible. In smaller vessels we do need to find room for the battery pack and water hoses; there’s no evading that. The client is highly satisfied. The sound, or rather the little sound the Jet Thruster produces, is very important to them. And he can even easily rotate around the axis. A thruster is just an extra helping hand. With the ever larger vessels and the box sizes remaining the same it is not an unnecessary luxury. I have received some new requests already, so we are going to install more Jet Thrusters.”

V. Panetta

I am going to try to explain  in a few words how great it is to have a Jet Thruster.
We live in the South of France, a place known for being windy and especially thanks to its famous wind named “Mistral” which can get very strong in a very short time. We own a sailing boat a “Harmony 38 Feet” and sometimes going out or in the harbor was quite stressful especially when we sailed alone or in couple.

So we looked forward to finding out a bow propeller. We did not want to modify the structure of the boat and we were very keen on keeping the same sailing speed.
We surfed the net, went to different nautical exhibitions for several months but we did not find the product we looked for. And one day we found out the Holland Marine Parts site.
We phoned the firm directly because such a bow propeller was unknown in France. During this call, we were said that the firm was going to exhibit the Jet Thruster at the Nautical Exhibition in Dusseldorf Germany January 2012. So we went to Germany where we met the commercial team but also the engineer who explained us how to set up the system and how it works.
When we came back in France, we found  a nautical professional and we gave to him the instructions to install the Jet Thruster JT- 50. About the structure we only had to set up 3 nozzles. That was not complicated and meant no structural modification.
Setting up the system was not at all complicated so the professional was able to work properly, quickly and efficiently.
Now it is so great to sail on our boat without stress!!