CMC Marine Unveils Four New Systems at the Cannes Yachting Festival, Starting With Its First In-House Fins

CMC Marine used its press conference at the Cannes Yachting Festival to introduce four new systems across its stabilization and maneuvering lines: LA fins for Stabilis Electra, the Waveless STAB 50 and 60, five-blade propellers for Dualis Electra, and a redesigned touchscreen display. The fins carry the heavier signal. They are the company's first product developed and manufactured entirely in-house.

The distinction is what makes this the more interesting update of the four. It is the first CMC Marine product designed, simulated and manufactured entirely in-house, at the company's plant in Salerno, backed by an extensive program of CFD simulation, structural engineering and technical validation. The fins themselves post real numbers: an optimized, rounded leading edge is said to cut turbulence and reduce drag by up to 30 percent while underway, with the range covering Stabilis Electra fin surfaces from 2.10 to 7 square meters. For a company that competes on stabilization performance, owning that pipeline outright is a different kind of claim than a spec upgrade.

A compact stabilizer for the mid-size fleet

The Waveless STAB 50 and 60 extend CMC Marine's electric fin stabilizer range upward, to yachts as large as 45 meters and displacements beyond 200 tonnes, while keeping the installation footprint compact. The pitch is aimed less at outright stabilization performance, which the company already offers across its portfolio, and more at the tradeoff yards and owners make every time a stabilizer goes into a hull: how much usable interior space it costs to get there. A system engineered for compactness is a system that protects square footage a designer would otherwise have to give up.

Quieter thrust, and a screen built to match it

Dualis Electra also gets an update, with a new five-blade propeller developed and manufactured in-house by CMC Marine's R&D team. The optimized geometry is engineered to cut thrust fluctuations by up to 30 percent, which translates into smoother maneuvering and a measurable drop in noise, a factor CMC Marine positions as increasingly important on yachts starting at 30 meters, where higher power outputs make vibration harder to ignore.

The new capacitive touchscreen display is the smallest of the four launches and the most operational. It adds brightness, resolution and responsiveness under direct sunlight, and integrates CAN NMEA 2000 ports so the display can read navigation and GPS data directly from the vessel's network rather than sitting apart from it. It is the kind of update that rarely earns its own headline, and rarely goes unnoticed by the crew using it every day.

The KERS idea, moved from track to hull

Alongside the four launches, CMC Marine is running a live demonstration in Cannes of its Energy Recovery System, built around the same principle as Formula 1's KERS. Energy generated during the braking phase of the stabilizer fins is recovered and reused within the stabilization process itself, instead of dissipating. The company states the system eliminates power peaks and can cut energy consumption by up to 50 percent, a figure that, if it holds up at sea the way it does on the stand, would be the most consequential number in the entire announcement.

What's actually on the stand

The four launches sit inside a larger presence. CMC Marine's full product line, covering yachts, superyachts, megayachts and refit projects, is on display at its Cannes stand, and numerous vessels already fitted with the company's stabilization and control systems are moored throughout the marina during the show, running the more convincing kind of demonstration. None of the four updates changes what CMC Marine sells. Together, they say something about how the company wants to sell it: fewer components sourced from outside the business, a wider size range under one product family, and an efficiency claim backed by a working demonstration rather than a spec sheet alone. For yards and owners comparing stabilization suppliers, that shift in who builds what is the detail worth carrying out of Cannes.