Saildrive
id:
saildrive-317-16012318
title:
Saildrive
text:
A saildrive is a transmission system for a boat whose inboard engine has a horizontal output shaft. The saildrive's input shaft is therefore also horizontal. That input shaft is geared so as to drive a vertical intermediate shaft extending downward through the hull. The intermediate shaft is then geared so as to drive a horizontal propeller shaft mounted on a skeg outside the hull. The transitions from horizontal to vertical and then back to horizontal can be seen as a Z shape, and saildrives ar
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Non-steerable propeller drive leg
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saildrive
date created:
date modified:
2019-07-12T07:10:30Z
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image:
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13
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