Sharrow X10™ Propeller Honored as Nominee in the 2024 DAME Design Award

DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 22, 2024--

Sharrow Marine, the industry leader in innovative marine propulsion technology, is honored to announce that the Sharrow X10™ propeller was honored as a nominee for the 2024 DAME Design Award in the Propulsion and Dynamics category. This nomination places Sharrow Marine among the 58 products from 28 countries recognized for design excellence in the 33rd edition of the globally renowned DAME Design Awards, held at the METSTRADE Show in Amsterdam.

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The DAME Design Awards, launched in 1991, recognize excellence across all facets of marine design, celebrating innovations that elevate functionality, aesthetics, and sustainability. The 2024 nominees include some of the marine industry’s most forward-thinking solutions, with each recognized product representing a significant step forward in design and engineering.

“We are incredibly proud to be recognized by the DAME Design Awards,” said Greg Sharrow, Founder and CEO of Sharrow Marine. “The excitement around the X10™ propeller in the market has been phenomenal. As more boaters experience the difference, we’re looking forward to seeing how the X10™ can shape the future of sustainable and high-performance boating.”

The Sharrow X10™ propeller, developed specifically for the Mercury V10, 350, and 400 hp engines, is designed to redefine propulsion performance. Available in both three and four-blade configurations, it addresses the diverse performance needs of V10 users, delivering superior speed, fuel efficiency, and enhanced handling. With Sharrow Marine’s patented looped blade design, the X10™ sets new standards in propulsion by eliminating traditional limitations on propeller technology.

Captain Red Flowers, who recently completed the Great Loop Challenge with a record-breaking time of 6,000 miles in 19 days, 19 hours and 50 minutes, commented on his experience using the X10™ during his journey. “The Sharrow X10™ was a game-changer,” said Flowers. “Its unmatched fuel efficiency allowed me to cover more distance with less fuel, and its quiet, smooth performance made it a must-have for long journeys.”

About Sharrow Engineering and Sharrow Marine

Sharrow Engineering, a Detroit-based advanced engineering and design firm, revolutionized propeller technology with the Sharrow™ Propeller, the first major advancement in propeller technology since the 1830s. Invented by Greg Sharrow, the Sharrow Propeller has solved the most basic problem of rotary propulsion, eliminating tip cavitation and vortices, and offering significant performance gains over traditional propellers. Sharrow Engineering holds over 150 patents worldwide and is the parent company of Sharrow Marine, which produces and sells the award-winning propeller for the maritime industry.

Sharrow Marine and the Sharrow Propeller have earned substantial recognition, including being named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023, one of Soundings Trade Only’s Most Innovative Marine Companies of 2024, and receiving honors from Fast Company's 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards and 2023 Innovation by Design Awards. Other awards include the 2024 Clean Technology Transportation Solution of the Year from CleanTech Breakthrough, the 2022 Boating Marine Power Innovation Award from Boating Magazine, and the 2020 Miami International Boat Show Innovation Award. For more information, visit www.sharrowmarine.com.

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Associated Press (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist Civic Coalition held a primary Friday to select a candidate who will run in the nation's presidential election next year.

Party members were choosing between Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, 52, a social liberal who has participated in LGBTQ+ pride parades, and Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, a 61-year-old who is seen as more conservative, to run in the election to succeed incumbent President Andrzej Duda.

“I am very proud of both of our candidates,” Tusk said Friday, describing the contest as a healthy exercise in democracy. Party members had until midnight to vote by secured text message and Tusk was scheduled to announce the winner Saturday.

Trzaskowski has long been considered the obvious candidate for Tusk’s party, but was recently challenged by Sikorski’s decision to run.

Sikorski, who has served as a defense and foreign minister in past governments and has ties in Washington, argued that his experience in the areas of security and diplomacy made him the better choice at a time of war in neighboring Ukraine and political change in the United States.

“There will be a reshuffle of the security architecture in our region. You can’t learn in office — you have to get into it right away,” Sikorski said in an interview with the Rzeczpospolita news site on Friday. “I objectively know more about geopolitics, defense and security policy than Rafał Trzaskowski. I’ve been doing this longer.”

Some of Sikorski's opponents argued that Sikorski's wife, the American writer and historian Anne Applebaum, would create difficulties in the U.S.-Polish relationship when Donald Trump enters the White House because she has criticized Trump in her writings. The headline of an article she wrote for The Atlantic in October was: “Trump is speaking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.”

The winner of Friday's contest was expected to be one of the most important candidates in a field of challengers from other parties.

The conservative opposition party, Law and Justice led by Jarosław Kaczyński, which governed Poland from 2015-23, has not named its candidate yet. That person is expected to be picked by Kaczyński.

The date of the presidential election has not yet been announced but a first round is expected to be held in May, and a possible runoff would be held two weeks later if no candidate gets an outright majority in the first round.

Duda will complete his second five-year term in August 2025 and is prevented by the constitution from running again.

It is a priority for Tusk to have an ally win the presidency because it will determine whether he can fulfil his agenda. He is currently unable to fulfill some of his campaign promises because Duda wields veto power over legislation, but also because of opposition within his own three-party coalition.

Trzaskowski in his role has overseen a rapidly changing capital city of nearly 2 million people that has absorbed large numbers of Ukrainian refugees. He ran for president in 2020, and barely lost to Duda then.

The Civic Coalition is led by Tusk's party Civic Platform and also includes smaller parties including the Greens.

ALTERNATIVE CROP FILE - Poland's Civic Platform member, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, gestures during an election campaign rally in Otwock, Poland, on Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

FILE - Former Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski attends a debate with former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on democracy and the aftermath of the British departure from the EU, in Warsaw, Poland, on June 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)