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I will say this and have talked about it here before, I loved everything about the boat but the drives, I have over 2000hrs behind the wheel of a boat and never broke a drive before the P29 or since. I have had Outboards, Alpha drives, lots of Bravos, and Now #5 drives. I wouldn't say I beat on my stuff but I run hard. The Blackhawks blew so much I had spare drives half way into the first season, in a season and a half I owned it I spent over 20k repairing drives. The parts were getting hard to find in the late 90's so unless somebody is making them it's going to be hard, bravos gears work but it's the shafts that twist too and they are shorter than the bravo. When I sold the boat I put my spare drive's up for sale and they sold in under an hour to a guy with a Donzi Blackhawk, he said he gets 10-15 hours out of them. The way I look at it if they were a good drive they would still make them.
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