This is a quiet, smooth and especially light way to power this boat. It weighs 110 pounds, everything included. The Honda drives the Synergy effortlessly at 8 knots. Note this month that three out of the four reviews use saildrives. Saildrives offer the lowest drag of any propeller installation.
Construction uses a male mold and composite construction with wood, foam, carbon fiber and glass.
This produces a very strong and stiff sandwich with panel weights around 1.5 pounds per square foot. Regular readers will know by now what I think of one-designs. If there is to be any momentum behind a new class it will come from boat performance and not ad hype. People will flock to a new, hot boat. They won't buy a dog just because they think there will be another 10 of them on the starting line.