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AssigneeAB Volvo Penta
InventorsKyle Cook, David Wilson, John Marsh, IV, William Gremminger
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A watercraft includes a first propulsion unit and a second propulsion unit that can be rotated to a normal operating mode orientation in which they each have normal mode toe angles, and to at least one a wake wave generating orientation wherein the first propulsion unit has a first propulsion unit wake wave generating mode toe angle and the second propulsion unit has a second propulsion unit wake wave generating mode toe angle greater than the normal mode toe angles. In the wake wave generating orientation, a wash of the at least one of the first propulsion unit and the second propulsion unit is less disruptive of at least one of a peak wave and a diverging wake wave of a wake of the watercraft in the wake wave generating mode than in the normal operating mode.
A watercraft, comprising:
A method of generating surfable wake waves with a watercraft, the watercraft comprising a hull having a longitudinal centerline and a first and second side on opposite sides of the centerline, a first propulsion unit rotatably mounted to the hull on the first side of the hull, a second propulsion unit rotatably mounted to the hull on the second side of the hull, the first propulsion unit and the second propulsion unit being independently rotatable relative to the hull by a controller, comprising
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