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Surface Piercing Drives

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Re: Surface Piercing Drives

Postby Midnightsun » April 26th, 2019, 8:07 am

Viper wrote:Source of the post Had a customer with triple Arneson surface drives. I got to work on them. Definitely a whole new ball game. You learn a lot about them when the customer nearly rips them off after hitting bottoms $$$. Loved doing the sea trials after repairs. :captain:


Would love to have seen/worked on those. Lucky you. :captain2:
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Re: Surface Piercing Drives

Postby waybomb » April 26th, 2019, 12:25 pm

PV has SSM drives with surface props.
Three blades - provides a higher top end speed since only about two blades are creating drag.
Four blades would get me a better holeshot but I'd lose 4-5mph on the top end because of the extra drag of almost 3 blades in the water all the time.
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Re: Surface Piercing Drives

Postby Viper » April 26th, 2019, 8:07 pm

Midnightsun wrote:Source of the post
Viper wrote:Source of the post Had a customer with triple Arneson surface drives. I got to work on them. Definitely a whole new ball game. You learn a lot about them when the customer nearly rips them off after hitting bottoms $$$. Loved doing the sea trials after repairs. :captain:


Would love to have seen/worked on those. Lucky you. :captain2:

Ya the fun was good while it lasted. The last time I worked on it was two years ago, then the boat ended up being sold to a guy south of the boarder soon after. Haven't seen another one in the area since. :-(

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Re: Surface Piercing Drives

Postby tomschauer » April 28th, 2019, 1:47 am

Some of the bigger 100mph+ boats up our way run the Aronson drives. Those blades are razor sharp.

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