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Old 02-13-2012, 11:52 AM   #20 (permalink)
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I have always wondered about matching a pair of Pod drives to a non-cockpit Motoryacht by means of a cockpit addition to this or any other Motoryacht design - It would be interesteing to see someone try it, have a modern, quiet and economical power package in an improved overall design with the cockpit, balance the boat out with centerline fuel tanks (aka Lazzarra) and create a huge workshop (or whatever) for the tinkerer in all of us??? Nothing $400K+ could not figure out
Why do you think a cockpit would be necessary? IPS can be mounted pretty much as close to or far from the powerplant as needed. That's not to say it would work well on this boat, but just curious.
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