Thread: Cruising launch

Any leg is a problem for maintenance on a permanently moored vessel. I'd have one on a trailer launch or something that can be easily hauled out without needing a syncro or a crane.

The number of times I have hit logs and crap in the water with a shaft boat, and either chopped it up or dented the prop and was able to pop it off and easily have it repaired... Any one of those could have potentially sunk a leg powered boat as the way the leg is assembled any impact can dislodge or damage things that are required for sealing. Most of the stuff I hit I never even saw as well, floating just under the surface or hidden in the chop. Other stuff I saw too late to avoid, some I had time to grab a handful of neutral (including an export pine log in Tauranga harbour the bastards). Cut up a native tree out by Mayor Is while trolling into the sun one day, produced about 10 nice little pieces of firewood. Piss me off, fresh straighten on the prop after thumping another piece of wood the previous trip!

I'd agree that with smaller sized vessels legs can be more efficient with the cleaner hull, but in larger vessels the increased sized of shafts, uni joints, gears etc starts to even things out.