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Old 12-28-2008, 04:30 AM   #5
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Transmissions?

There made , check out the 2 speeds by ZF.

The few boats that need them are go fasts , and there not cheap.

If we finally get a box boat done it will have BOTH 2 speed and CP.

Only by allowing the engine to work really hard ,( not doable except at a single speed with a fixed tranny & prop,) will real economy be achieved.

The question of course is still the hour number of use , $25K of fancy prop , tranny vs $8K of OTS, takes a lot of hours to ammortize.

But should the boat generate enough interest to cookie, the world wide magazine articles* about its economy would pay as add bucks.

FF

-- Edited by FF at 06:32, 2008-12-28
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