I am currently in the early stages of designing/building a 20' V-hull
with a fixed shaft type surface piercing drive. Power will be provided
by a standard inboard type transmission mated to a 330hp. V8 gas engine.
Does anyone have any experience with surface piercing drives good or
bad? If so, please share any information that could be useful or
possibly help avoid a failure/problem situation. I know that the props
are a major cost, and can be difficult to select. Any help appreciated.
Thanks. Tom.

Go he http://www.howardarneson.com

Howard knows more about surface drives than most of us will ever know.


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I am currently in the early stages of designing/building a 20' V-hull
with a fixed shaft type surface piercing drive. Power will be provided
by a standard inboard type transmission mated to a 330hp. V8 gas engine.
Does anyone have any experience with surface piercing drives good or
bad? If so, please share any information that could be useful or
possibly help avoid a failure/problem situation. I know that the props
are a major cost, and can be difficult to select. Any help appreciated.
Thanks. Tom.

So a search for "Simplicity Drives". I remember seeing them a while back.
They were designed to replace IO units....

Bill

Yes, I am using a marine transmission, when I wrote standard inboard
transmission, I was referring to a standard inboard "marine"
transmission. It's a paragon marine transmission. Does anyone know if
you remove the tailshaft assembly on a Paragon 3:1 does the drive ratio
revert to 1:1?