The Orca Yacht drive is
the trouble free sail drive alternative. It has been used
on many Whitbread sailing boats, production yachts and
high performance catamarans such as “Play station”.
It has also been used as a “p” bracket on
displacement launches. When installation of conventional
stern tubes and struts becomes a problem and lining up of
the separate components takes up too much of your
valuable time, then you should consider this exciting new
concept, combining installation ease with mechanical
simplicity.
The Yacht drive is a
combination of a tube and a Kevlar and carbon fibre
reinforced support strut. The tube is a hi-tech woven uni-directional
fabric which is pre-impregnated with a thermo setting
epoxy resin, then laminated and cured under pressure
using the latest techniques to ensure optimum density of
this tube. The immense advantage of this system is
that, once it is glassed in place, it becomes an integral
part of your vessel and, being non-metallic, it is
completely corrosion and electrolysis free. It is very
lightweight and strong.
The Yacht drive can be fitted
with the Orca, PSS or Deep Sea Seal, all of which are dry
gland - forced cooled seals. The Yacht drive tube can also
be fitted with a combination of bearings, singular or
outboard and inboard. The bearings mostly used are
Thordon Compac, Thordon XL and Duramax, although any
other specified type can be used.
Fitting the Yacht drive is
extremely simple:
