TX H210SS wrote:
I agree with those points being concerns. It may be best thing since sliced bread, but I would be in the wait and see group. I would like to see it on a trailer and wonder if it sits as high as that display photo ric posted. I don't see how the front mounted props add to the wake at all. Increase turn radius yes, but other performance increase over standard duo prop would be questionable.
I do see nicely fitted wake plates that look like hull extension. I wonder if those would fit H series models. Those plates and fatsacs are how they're getting the wake, not forward props. I'm trying to understand what advantage to this setup is over the vdrive is. With the vdrive there's no drive obstruction between wake plate and the wake as there is on this setup.
It seems to me as Lou said, the props run deeper with trim up. It is different, but I was hoping for the vdrive option personally. Not that I have coin for it!
Pretty much my thoughts exactly...wait and see and then still not buy one until a few years down the road when the make it into the used boat market.
Regarding the clearance on trailer issue, this is not unique to this drive. My brother had a new cobalt 220 with volvo dp drive and there is very little clearance to tilt the drive on the trailer due to the water level swim platform. He trailers it very little because he keeps it in the water at his lake house, but in the couple of times he has had to trailer it so far, he has scuffed the skeg already. It really is shocking how little clearance he has under the drive when on the trailer.