Lucas Oil SilverHook—A Year in the Making
 

Nigel Hook and Michael Silfverberg are campaigning their Lucas Oil-sponsored SilverHook boat in the Super Boat International series this season. The Mystic-built V-bottom has come a long way in a year…

http://speedonthewater.com/in-the-ne...he-making.html

Given the Miss GECICO disaster, it's nice to have a "good news" story come out of Sarasota.

Lucas Oil kick a$$ Lucas Oil has been sponsoring Nigel Hook for years!!!! Awesome!

Chris

"...Beyond a handful of boats built for endurance runs, our setup with a fixed rudder and fixed shaft drives is unheard of—we’re in an area where there’s very little precedence.

The Lucas Oil team celebrates its victory in Sarasota, Fla. Photo courtesy Chuck CarrollThe Lucas Oil team celebrates its victory in Sarasota, Fla. Photo courtesy Chuck Carroll. “It took time to learn how the boat corners because the rudder stays straight, and unlike other rudder V-bottoms out there with steerable Arneson surface drives, the propellers are also always pushing the same way as the rudder...”


I don't understand this. How can the drives and rudder be "fixed", meaning not moveable, and yet move to turn the boat??? He then says the props are moving the same way as the rudder. I don't get it...