Here’s THE reason to buy a new twin engine boat this coming spring. It’s that good. It’s that intuitive. And it’s changing the playing field for twin engine boats.
On a soaking, snotty, rainy day that should have made for a miserable first test, I got to run the best thing to hit 30' to 35' boats since power steering. Wow!
Now, no one should buy a new boat without a demo, but I suggest that you will be doing yourself a disservice if you don’t first demo an Axius-equipped boat before you buy any twin engine powerboat within the lower-thirty cruiser category. Try it. I say you will love it. Just give it 15 minutes—and boat handling, as you know it, will be redefined.
What is Axius? It’s a new version of a sterndrive.
How is it different? Each drive is turned by itself. No tie-bar connecting the drives to each other outside the boat. No tie-bar inside the boat. Each is capable of its own steering.
What does that do? When offered as a system in a boat—as in the Axius Sterndrive System—it lets the skipper do amazing things around the marina, near a beach, during water sports, and even while fishing. Figure on a 15-minute getting-used-to-it curve and you’ll be able to place your boat better than you would with twenty years’ of twin screw handling experience. Yes, you heard that right: Get twenty years’ of experience in 15 minutes! That’s why it’s the best thing since power steering in my book.
A joystick is the control device. You may have heard about this for diesel-powered boats. With Axius it’s available for gas-powered boats as well. Through the joystick you control not only the drives’ steering, but also each engine’s rpm throttle settings—all in one “stick” that you either tilt or twist. Tilt it and the engines and steering set themselves so that the boat goes in the direction that you leaned the stick. Twist for more power. That’s it: tilt and twist the stick and the boat moves in the direction and at the speed that you want.
No more struggles negotiating to get into or out of a slip that’s tight, or against strong winds and current. No more shifting throttles and turning a steering wheel. That’s all done by the stick when you select to be in Axius mode. Go back to regular twin screw operation when you select to. Simple, easy, and it quickly becomes just what you do.
Check for another posting where I share my on-the-water experience with Axius.
On a soaking, snotty, rainy day that should have made for a miserable first test, I got to run the best thing to hit 30' to 35' boats since power steering. Wow!
Now, no one should buy a new boat without a demo, but I suggest that you will be doing yourself a disservice if you don’t first demo an Axius-equipped boat before you buy any twin engine powerboat within the lower-thirty cruiser category. Try it. I say you will love it. Just give it 15 minutes—and boat handling, as you know it, will be redefined.
What is Axius? It’s a new version of a sterndrive.
How is it different? Each drive is turned by itself. No tie-bar connecting the drives to each other outside the boat. No tie-bar inside the boat. Each is capable of its own steering.
What does that do? When offered as a system in a boat—as in the Axius Sterndrive System—it lets the skipper do amazing things around the marina, near a beach, during water sports, and even while fishing. Figure on a 15-minute getting-used-to-it curve and you’ll be able to place your boat better than you would with twenty years’ of twin screw handling experience. Yes, you heard that right: Get twenty years’ of experience in 15 minutes! That’s why it’s the best thing since power steering in my book.
A joystick is the control device. You may have heard about this for diesel-powered boats. With Axius it’s available for gas-powered boats as well. Through the joystick you control not only the drives’ steering, but also each engine’s rpm throttle settings—all in one “stick” that you either tilt or twist. Tilt it and the engines and steering set themselves so that the boat goes in the direction that you leaned the stick. Twist for more power. That’s it: tilt and twist the stick and the boat moves in the direction and at the speed that you want.
No more struggles negotiating to get into or out of a slip that’s tight, or against strong winds and current. No more shifting throttles and turning a steering wheel. That’s all done by the stick when you select to be in Axius mode. Go back to regular twin screw operation when you select to. Simple, easy, and it quickly becomes just what you do.
Check for another posting where I share my on-the-water experience with Axius.
Or am I out of touch with reality and living in the past????