Reply To: Bow thruster

I wish I had!

The factory in Germany have been so busy that I'm having to wait until the end of this week to get my hands on the thing – aaah! I've got everything ready, the control cables, remote throttle and battery cables all look very good quality and well designed. The write up in PBO of the smaller unit rates it as the best on the market etc – but I won't know until I've fitted it on the weekend of 21st September.

So far it has all the makings of a very useful engine; a sternthruster, emergency steering and a very quiet auxilary motor rated at 6hp at the prop (equivalnet to about 7.5hp diesel inboard).

It's so quiet in oppertaion that if ever any of you end up racing us, and find we are inexplicably drawing ahead – you'll know why.

Full pics and write up the moment it's fitted.