{"id":1138,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:13:30","slug":"v-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/v-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"V-Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\"> A backup to my previous question, this boat CSY 37 has a V drive trans. giving it&#8217;s more complicated arrangement than a strait drive, are these prone to problems?? Thanks again Jim <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\"> There is a section in Offshore Cruising Ency on drive trains and V-drives. Bottom line, yes they add a layer of complication, are a little less efficient (more drag in the extra direction change) and typically make working on the stuffing box and shaft coupling a nightmare. But sometimes there is no alternative. Personally, having lived with two V-drives (Borg Warner CR71\/72 models) I do everything possible to stay away from them. Design wise, we&#8217;d rather make the boat 3&#8242; longer so we can fit in a straight drive. However, there are a lot of small boats with V-drives because there just is no other option. Steve <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A backup to my previous question, this boat CSY 37 has a V drive trans. giving it&#8217;s more complicated arrangement <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/v-drives\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-yacht-systems-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36400,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/36400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}