![]() The company I sell boats for is really trying to sell more boats that work for wakeboarding and surfing. The sterndrives have much more machinery outside the boat than inboards do and that used to make them very troublesome-on the other hand they were a lot more fuel efficient and had a much tighter turning radius. Some of the arguments for and against eachīack in the day when we sold inboard boats exclusively, inboards were much more dependable than sterndrives. When the captain turns the steering wheel the entire drive turns. The drive unit is the transmission AND the propulsion. With a sterndrive propulsion system an automotive engine is also inside the boat but it’s attached to a sterndrive (also called outdrive). The propeller pushes water past the turned rudder and that’s what turns the boat. The steering wheel is turned by the captain who turns the rudder. A propulsion shaft goes from the transmission to a propeller outside the boat. With inboard propulsion an automotive engine is inside the boat connected to a transmission. This position paper outlines a discussion I’ve had with others in my profession and is not the final word but rather a carefully thought out attempt to inform the consumer. I grew up in an age where the inboard propulsion system was king but later the sterndrive became the propulsion of choice in general purpose pleasure craft up to roughly a 37’ Length Overall. When I was growing up in my father’s boat dealership we did not like sterndrives. The debate between sterndrive and inboard propulsion has raged on for decades.
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