POD DRIVE INSTALLATION AND HULL CONFIGURATION FOR A MARINE VESSEL

摘要

A pod drive installation (10) and hull configurations for mounting a pod drive unit (12) to a hull which includes a horizontally disposed pod drive platform (24) for supporting a rotational pod drive mount (22) for mounting the pod drive unit with a vertically oriented steering axis (2L). The pod drive platform is mounted to the hull (16H), outward of the keel (16K) of the vessel, such that the pod drive platform intersects a plane defined by a hull bottom surface (16P,16S) tilted from the horizontal along a contour of intersection, between an outboard boundary (240) of the pod drive platform and an inboard boundary (241) of the pod drive platform, and is connected to the hull bottom surface by at least one of an outboard sidewall and an inboard sidewall (261).