Boat with a pair of turbine engines and a configurable propeller drive system for independently driving a pair of propellers from the turbine engines

Abstract

A boat including first and second turbine engines each having a rotor, first and second propeller assemblies each having a propeller shaft configured with a propeller pulley and a propeller, and a configurable propeller drive system including first and second configurable propeller drives each configured to drive a selected one of the first and second propeller pulleys from a corresponding one of the rotors of the first and second turbine engines. The first and second turbine engines may be air-cooled and mounted inline along the center of the hull. Each configurable propeller drive may include an intermediate pulley and multiple drive belts for driving a selected propeller pulley from each rotor via an intermediate pulley. The drive belts may be swapped so that either turbine engine may drive either propeller. The turbine engines may be air-cooled and may have reversible orientations.

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