Boat was designed and built by Mark WIlson in Stuart, FL. Cummins powered with all the latest equipment. Built as a pleasure boat but also possibly to be sold as a military patrol boat. Fast and cool.
Arneson Surface Drives, (there are quite a few videos showing them in action here on UA-cam) are used in racing, and on high performance boats. There's a couple of fellows who run high speed crabbing boats near where I live, and they swear by them. Twin 400hp diesels are the norm. They cover as much as 120 NM a day. Saves them fuel, gives good performance can change a prop without removing the boat from the water and are of a very simple but robust design.
Looks like it goes pretty fast and kicks up a hell of a rooster tail! I heard surface piercing drives are challenging to learn and maintain but they are so cool 😎
These are Arneson surface drives popular in the 80s and early 90s. They are production units. Popular choice if you had a lot of horsepower on a heavy yacht and wanted to go like a true go fast boat in the day. Pair these with diesels or 1000hp gas engines and get that 50+ ft heavy boat to see 60mph or more.
I've only read about surface piercing propellers before, never seen them in real life but this winter, there's a boat with three of these next to my boat in the winter storage hangar. A real monster for which I wouldn't like to pay the fuel.
Great Videos looks like a super nice setup should really get up & go like the way it is mounted to the transom looks very sturdy looks like it would take on some rough seas love your work thanx ALABAMA Smokeywilson
cool video, you should do more videos on the operation of those surface drive system. They look very interesting, like a mini version of those mounted on the Thunder Child II speed boat. What kind of boat are they mounted on, out of curiosity. 🤔
Mick Rumsby the down angle of the drive will allow them to reverse the boat. It can be done just like the flat transom on a sport fish that reverses when a fish is on the line. But slower is better to keep the water from coming in the cockpit.
@@AskCaptainChris The surface drives sit much higher in the water than a shaft or stern leg which is able to push the water under the boat. This is my boat the transom is on a 45-degree angle for this reason. ua-cam.com/video/uKLCUmt_zEk/v-deo.html
I just saw this boat in the yard and I don’t know the service history but the zinc seemed to be eaten up a bit. And yes, the zinc should be applied directly to bare metal.
Sacrificial anodes so the stray electrical currents in the water would attack the zincs instead of the SS shaft or Propeller. Same for outboard units, they have a zinc or anode also.
Very fast Arneson Drives ! Very fast. A specialty of Pershing Yachts ~ their newer models automatically trim the drives up and down. Keeping the propeller hub itself level with the waters surface is the trick. Hub in air no propulsion, hub is water less efficient. You will burn a lot of diesel 200 gallons per hour or more on some models.
George Mulligan May very well be Arneson but nowhere on the equipment could I find a label. I am headed back to that yard today so if it’s still there I will see if I can confirm. Thanks for your comments. 👍🏼
George Mulligan yupper. There were actually Two boats with the same drive units at the yard today. Confirmed they are Arneson Drives. Thanks to all who commented. 👍🏼
Boat was designed and built by Mark WIlson in Stuart, FL. Cummins powered with all the latest equipment. Built as a pleasure boat but also possibly to be sold as a military patrol boat. Fast and cool.
those are arneson surface drive. Never seen those little scoop on the transom, very intresting. Thank you for sharing
Arneson Surface Drives, (there are quite a few videos showing them in action here on UA-cam) are used in racing, and on high performance boats. There's a couple of fellows who run high speed crabbing boats near where I live, and they swear by them. Twin 400hp diesels are the norm. They cover as much as 120 NM a day. Saves them fuel, gives good performance can change a prop without removing the boat from the water and are of a very simple but robust design.
Looks like it goes pretty fast and kicks up a hell of a rooster tail! I heard surface piercing drives are challenging to learn and maintain but they are so cool 😎
No unice design, and this is a production model fram Arneson. Have been on the marked for ages. The scoops are intake for coolingwater for engines
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Arneson surface drives. Mass produced.
Really cool design, looks fast!
These are Arneson surface drives popular in the 80s and early 90s. They are production units. Popular choice if you had a lot of horsepower on a heavy yacht and wanted to go like a true go fast boat in the day. Pair these with diesels or 1000hp gas engines and get that 50+ ft heavy boat to see 60mph or more.
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What these are. You mean a surface drive?
Aronson surface drives or asd
Darron Lemell yes. Arneson Surface Drives. Thanks for watching and for your comments.
I've only read about surface piercing propellers before, never seen them in real life but this winter, there's a boat with three of these next to my boat in the winter storage hangar. A real monster for which I wouldn't like to pay the fuel.
skunkjobb very fast boats often burn a lot of fuel.
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Great Videos looks like a super nice setup should really get up & go like the way it is mounted to the transom looks very sturdy looks like it would take on some rough seas love your work thanx ALABAMA Smokeywilson
Alabama Smokey Wilson light fast boats don’t do as well in rough seas as heavy trawlers or sport fishermen.
cool video, you should do more videos on the operation of those surface drive system. They look very interesting, like a mini version of those mounted on the Thunder Child II speed boat.
What kind of boat are they mounted on, out of curiosity. 🤔
Couldn’t tell you what type of boat. I was focused on the drive system. Sorry.
Due to the skegs, I think they are french. Arneson don't have them
It would be very hard to reverse this beast because the transom is straight up and down and the wash would just bounce back pushing the boat forward.
Mick Rumsby the down angle of the drive will allow them to reverse the boat. It can be done just like the flat transom on a sport fish that reverses when a fish is on the line. But slower is better to keep the water from coming in the cockpit.
@@AskCaptainChris The surface drives sit much higher in the water than a shaft or stern leg which is able to push the water under the boat. This is my boat the transom is on a 45-degree angle for this reason. ua-cam.com/video/uKLCUmt_zEk/v-deo.html
Thanks for sharing. Hazards of the job, you keep hitting your head when you crawl around under boats.
Dennis Wintjes 🥴
Hope they didn’t mount the “trim shaft” anodes on top of the paint.
Might be why they aren’t showing much wear, compared to the others.
Sh!t.. same with the trim tabs?
I just saw this boat in the yard and I don’t know the service history but the zinc seemed to be eaten up a bit. And yes, the zinc should be applied directly to bare metal.
What the the zincs for?
Sacrificial anodes so the stray electrical currents in the water would attack the zincs instead of the SS shaft or Propeller. Same for outboard units, they have a zinc or anode also.
Surface propulsion system
Very cool....
Thats a go fast boat I would 80+ on the water
nashguy207 I heard 55knots today while at the yard- from the boat yard manager.
Very fast Arneson Drives ! Very fast. A specialty of Pershing Yachts ~ their newer models automatically trim the drives up and down. Keeping the propeller hub itself level with the waters surface is the trick.
Hub in air no propulsion, hub is water less efficient. You will burn a lot of diesel 200 gallons per hour or more on some models.
Robert Frost I’m not sure if this is an arneson brand but yes it is the same concept.
nothing unique about them, they are production models from arneson, how do you not know this?
Because I see different designs and there are no brand labels on the units like you would see a Ford or Chevy.
Arneson drives
George Mulligan May very well be Arneson but nowhere on the equipment could I find a label. I am headed back to that yard today so if it’s still there I will see if I can confirm. Thanks for your comments. 👍🏼
They do look like Arneson drives. Used to watch Howard Arneson run around the Delta in CA with his jet powered racers.
Kelly great memory. Thanks for sharing your experience 👍🏼
George Mulligan yupper. There were actually Two boats with the same drive units at the yard today. Confirmed they are Arneson Drives. Thanks to all who commented. 👍🏼
Just arnesons nothing special