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in terms of trends like when you're

thinking about

you know um what you're doing with

tactical or any other vote actually

what are sort of the general trends that

you're seeing over the near future in

the voting world

i mean you must get a lot of different

questions from potential buyers

people are dreaming what are the things

that you foresee happening

uh maybe first in the sort of the medium

size you know like let's call it 30 to

70 30 to 80 feet

what are the things that you see in that

realm happening

from your connection with the marine

world what are the trends that you think

are kind of up and coming yeah that's a

great question

so i think probably one of the biggest

obvious ones is is layout you know

and i'll relate it to open kitchen you

know you go back

you know 10 or 15 years to a house and

having the open kitchen

great room type layout wasn't really in

existence and

people have grown to expect that now

that you know common space common rooms

not a lot of walls or bulkheads between

things so open layouts

you know in general boat construction is

expected now

you know it's just expected and if you

look a lot of designs coming out from

you know

25 feet up to let's say 75 feet it's all

about

windows and being open and connected

with your outdoor environment and

outside of it so

i would say layout um with open spaces

finding ways to use

uh structure to be able to have more

windows in place more visibility more

natural light

um that's been a lot of commonplace and

been pushed

the other thing is you know power

packages you know as we've all seen the

outboard trend

you know run here for the last 10 years

you know more and more big big

outboards in the back now we're getting

to a point where you know a company like

mercury just launched their new 600

series if you haven't seen that you

should look it up

but you know they're putting 600

horsepower outboards from a company

that's going to mass produce these on

the back

with the dual prop setup and some great

technology and it's going to completely

change

again how people are designing boats and

you know

what you're able to do is you're moving

that traditional power that was

in the boat diesel power and things like

that that had to be there to push a

larger boat

the weight of it and you're freeing up

space and when you're freeing up space

you're giving opportunity and

options and you're getting you know

creative designers that are coming up

ways to use the space adding extra

cabins unique layouts

pop up build-ups all sorts of stuff so

the the outboard

revolution if you want to call it that

is is leading and has been leading to

unique layouts and abilities so you know

wild designs are

are here to stay and i think the the use

of open spaces and being able to connect

people

um just makes a lot of sense yeah

there's a triple package of mercury 600s

and uh you know you've got

triple 600s in the back of the boat uh

it's wild i mean it's it's pretty

impressive and you know

pretty wild what you can do with it all

that extra space i mean

systems and things that you're seeing

you're having more options for battery

banks you're having things like

gyro stabilizers that now have room

below the deck that didn't have it

before

there's just multiples of options of

what people can do with the usage of

space

by pushing out they're able to carry

more toys under deck you know more

unique features

um you know you're seeing tenders now

start to go under decks with technology

of

um electric outboards and you know all

sorts of things so

there's a lot of advancement in that

area i see that you know i'm sure

there's a lot that you could go into

from electrical but from a design

standpoint

um you know motoring options are really

changing

layouts i would say yeah outboards are

exciting

i have to agree it's um you know

not have that leg inboard outboard

in the water all the time is already

there something to not have to worry

about

yeah i mean not having running gear

under the boat you know just the the

safety factor the get home ability

you know if you were to strike ground

hit a log something was to happen

you know if you have more than one

outboard it's a safety factor as well

and you know just you're you're draft

under the water um you know there's so

many different

reasons it's a benefit and uh you know

maintenance at the end of the day

you've got to bolt one off and bolt one

on i mean it's it's impressive so

i think it's here to stay and seeing

things move to that level of dual prop

and 600 horsepower

motors um you're gonna see more of that

you know electric

uh hybrid stuff coming in diesel

technology going into outboards

um just see more of it going that

direction so

i definitely want to talk about the

diesel outboards that you're putting in

the tactical

um but before i go there i i want to

echo a little bit what you're saying you

know for me

what i'm thinking about outboards is you

can go to anchorages

that maybe you would have never gone to

before where the water shallow

even in british columbia where the water

is really deep there's a lot of

really amazing lagoons anchorages that

are

off limits to cell boaters or even power

motors that

can't lift up the engine and sometimes

you don't need a lot of water to be

floating

and if you're you know want to push the

envelope a little bit and you want to go

someplace where nobody else can kind of

come and reach you

and you want to have quiet time uh these

outboards are

amazing in terms of our ability to go to

anchorages that otherwise you know as a

sailboat owner i would have never even

dreamt of going

and now with an outboard you can do that

and you're right and then the

maintenance costs are easier and it's

the space

that's the big thing too you're

absolutely right you look at some of

those boats that have

you know those big engines you know

you're losing a

massive amount of space um on board

for those engines and then the

maintenance of those engines is really

crowded we work in those areas

definitely not a mechanic but working in

those spaces as a systems guy

you know sometimes it make it makes it

for you it's really i mean it's almost

some boats it's a nightmare scenario

where you have no space

at all you're almost hanging upside down

and you're doing work not for

10 minutes but for hours on end of

trying to maintain a system installing a

new system

so having these outboards outside and

aesthetically to now i mean you have to

i mean they're very pleasing to look at

nobody i personally i look at an

outboard engine and

they i mean the way that they've

actually done the outside shell

they're very very pretty to look at yeah

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