Quick Group will unveil QCentric, Pacific controls and its completed QSY electric-thruster range at Cannes. The upper QSY range extends into the 30-metre yacht sector.
Quick Group will use the 2026 Cannes Yachting Festival to unveil QCentric, a new CAN-bus integration platform, alongside Pacific controls and a completed QSY electric-thruster range that now extends into the 30-metre yacht sector. The Italian marine-equipment group says the launch is intended to combine manoeuvring hardware, controls and data within a more integrated onboard environment as the European autumn show season begins.
The world premiere is scheduled for the Cannes Yachting Festival from 8 to 13 September, with Quick Group listed at stand PAN 357 in the Pantiero equipment area in Cannes. The announcement is relevant to the superyacht market both because the upper end of the QSY range reaches yachts of about 30 metres and because QCentric is designed as a wider system architecture rather than a single piece of equipment.
QCentric is the most significant element of the announcement from a superyacht-systems perspective. Quick describes it as an open and scalable CAN-bus-based platform designed to integrate products, functions and data in a unified environment, with support for both Quick Group equipment and external solutions.
The stated objective is to simplify installation, reduce complexity and provide a technical ecosystem that can expand as additional equipment is added. That approach matters on yachts where manoeuvring, stabilisation, lighting, deck equipment, monitoring and other systems increasingly need to coexist without creating unnecessary duplication in controls, cabling or data pathways.
Quick Group already operates across several onboard equipment categories through brands including MC2, Sanguineti, Quick Nautical Equipment, Quick Marine Lighting, Xenta and Nemo. QCentric gives the group a common architecture through which those product families can increasingly be connected, while the commitment to external integration will be an important point to watch as the platform develops beyond its Cannes debut.
Alongside QCentric, Quick has expanded its QSY range of electric thrusters, which uses proprietary synchronous brushless-motor technology. According to the pre-show announcement, the completed range will run from the 12-volt BT QSY 140-50, producing 50 kgf of thrust through a 140mm tunnel, to the new 48-volt BT QSY 300-350, producing up to 350 kgf through a 300mm tunnel.
Quick has also introduced a 215mm tunnel to fill the gap between its 185mm and 250mm options, broadening the available combinations of tunnel size and thrust. The aim is to give builders and installers a more complete matrix for matching manoeuvring equipment to a vessel's size, electrical system and required performance rather than forcing a compromise between existing sizes.
The superyacht relevance is concentrated at the upper end of the range rather than across every QSY model. Quick places the QSY 300 family on yachts reaching approximately 30 metres, so the overlap with Superyacht Guide's 24-metre-and-above fleet definition is primarily in the compact-superyacht segment.
Pacific is being introduced alongside the expanded QSY hardware as a proportional control-interface series optimised for the thrusters. The announcement places Pacific between the electric-thruster hardware and the wider QCentric architecture, creating a package in which propulsion-related controls, equipment and communications are designed to work together.
That three-layer structure is more important than a simple increase in available thruster sizes because it points toward an integrated manoeuvring package rather than a collection of standalone components. For builders, captains and technical departments, the practical value will depend on how cleanly the architecture handles installation, interoperability, diagnostics and future expansion in real yacht applications.
Quick Group is officially listed by the Cannes Yachting Festival among exhibitors supplying bow and stern thrusters, stabilisers, navigation and electronic equipment, lighting and electrical systems, and hydraulic gangway and deck equipment. Its PAN 357 position in Pantiero therefore places the QCentric and QSY premieres in the part of the show where builders and technical buyers can evaluate the systems alongside competing equipment.
The expanded thruster range provides the immediate hardware headline, but QCentric has the broader strategic implications for the superyacht sector. By treating integration and data exchange as part of the product architecture, Quick Group is positioning connectivity as a core element of its equipment offering, and Cannes will provide the first public opportunity to assess how that approach is presented to builders, installers and yacht operators.