[mazda77]

I have seen it here in Jax a couple of times. It was at the BAE ship fitters for some tower updates. When they said steel prop shafts in the article, I knew it was jet drive but they also have shafts for the jets. Whatever the case, have them changed out to composite and see how they perform. The first two were built to mainly test under operational conditions. Rarely does anyone get it 100% right the first time out.

Technically, it is a thing of beauty and I love that it essentially produces no bow wake and for that matter, not much of a wake at all.

[Roccus]

I find this confusing since the “propulsion” section at the right of the wiki article says “carbon fiber shaftlines”.
Granted, wiki is NOT the end-all of research material. My thoughts on this were far too simplistic and my posts were motivated by a lack of proper caffeine intake.

[Travis McGee]

I agree, the concept is “all there,” but the execution for long life in a salt water environment must be worked out.