[MHml] OutDrive Legs (was PRM Transmissions)

[Dan Frenette]

Be careful. I have talked a number of owners that tried hydrolics and 
didn't get the reliability or performance they expected. Now this is 
second and third hand information but when a sailor goes to every race 
for 30 years in a row doesn't start due to no engine then there is 
something challenging about the technology.

This group doesn't normally stop at a challenged technology but there is 
something more so with the physics here.

There are clearly good adaptations of this sort of thing on land but 
something about boats is a bit different.

Dan Frenette

K38BOB at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/10/2007 3:53:58 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> beiland at usa.net writes:
> 
>     Regrettably the PYI unit I referenced is not being built any longer,
>     and it
>     was not a cheap unit
> 
> Thanks Brian,
> I actually was looking for that unit when I couldn't find a Sillette rep 
> in the US to ask about "Hydrodrive".
>  
> Does anyone have any knowledge about the "hydrodrive" internals and 
> performance? I notice that Phillipe Kahn Pegasus has one.
> http://www.pegasus.com/pegasus77/gallery/exterior/ext_11.htm Prop pretty 
> close to hull bottom?
>  
> I'm considering the smallest one (Yanmar 2gm SD20 currently) perhaps 
> remote under cabin sole with shaft from current engine compartment 
> through bulkhead (c-drive)
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