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Offline Colorado93

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Re: New guy 1%er
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2012, 05:45:26 PM »
Have you ever seen the Infinity ski boat with the forward mounted v-drive? The prop is some five feet in front of the transom. Goofy, but it drove fine, and seemed to generate a flat wake.
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Offline RonT

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Re: New guy 1%er
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2012, 07:43:09 AM »
Drove it, was not impressed, I believe in the KISS engineering philosophy. Robs idea was to reduce the shaft angle to improve wakes, but putting all that gear noise up front and added cost was a drawback, but it was different.
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Offline Colorado93

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Re: New guy 1%er
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2012, 07:00:25 PM »
I wouldn't think there were more than - what 50 to 100 of the things built. Different for the sake of being different.
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