325's

[DJI]

Does anyone know if any of the 325 flybridge aft-cabins we're shaft driven and/or had twin screw diesel's? All I've found is the opposite, direct drive and gasoline engines. Thx!

[bud37]

Welcome to the forum.....Direct drive is an engine roughly midships with a trans and straight shaft to turn the props, terminology in ads can be confusing sometimes I find. All those models would be like that. I am sure some came with diesels but pretty rare up here I would think. Not sayin they don't exist, be a find though if well kept.

Aft cabin boats don't really have the room under the aft cabin for engines in the stern. Good luck on your search.

[km1125]

The PowerBoat Guidebook doesn't list any options for the 325/326, just the standard 300HP gas engines. I haven't see any listed as used with anything else either.

Direct drive to me implies no gear reduction. I don't think that was used on these boats either. As Bud says, I think these were all shaft-drive boats.

These boats probably could have benefited from a v-drive configuration, to minimize the shaft and prop angle, but as far as I know that wasn't used either.