Sea Ray L590

That was the penalty for Zeus. Not enough hp for two engines from Cummins/Zeus at the time. I think this boat was an abomination. The 650 was a good design albeit lousy execution, but the 590 and Zeus and under torqued three pods was desperation failed. Spinning and handling would be it's strength, however. It's the other areas where it fails.

SR built one L590 with twin MANs. That’s the one to find.

Azimut 55s has 3 motors as well and it continued on in the S6.

The three on the L590 just don't have the torque you'd like. With something other than Zeus, two would have been adequate. We have there on our AB but not Zeus pods.

It's a pig, burns 78 gph to do 21-22 knots at cruise. Also the boat is too heavy for it's hull, express is wet in 1-2' sea and the FB when make tight turns at slow speeds feels like it's going to completely heel over.

S7 has triple IPS as well and the Lazzara has quads on the 92. It’s Zeus that sunk sea ray as IPS powered boats are thriving.

So had SeaRay or whoever owned and ran them at the time would have gone with VolvoPenta IPS we would see SeaRay larger boats thriving? While I see IPS in a lot of boats now, I am not sure the boat in question would have been a winner with IPS. Although I never understood three of four motors and drives in one boat either...

You can’t run a Viking on an ips 1350. They don’t make a powerful enough motor for larger blue water boats. I don’t think there’s any other reason beyond that. Riviera which is primarily ips goes over to mans in the big model 72 as an example.

Magellano 43 and serious cruising. How about slow cruising as that's what using them on S7 and not Mags is about. The IPS targets speedier boat and efficient planing speeds. The Magellano line doesn't fit their profile at all. No trawler like boats do. You'd never benefit from their efficiency. Now, I'm not an IPS or Zeus fan but let's not confuse the issue.

Now dcwjd initially did the confusion and he is also very off target. So called blue water boats wouldn't benefit from IPS regardless of hp. On the other hand 80-88' Delta's do benefit as they're geared to performance, not to slow cruising.

Whether you could run a Viking or Riviera with pods, you could with enough of them or a different pod other than IPS but triples and quads and quints make no sense, nor do pods make sense for sportfishing. SF builders aren't pods fans and I can't imagine a Sportfishing person ever wanting pods. Talk about a group set in their ways and believing in sound and vibration.

None of this has anything to do with the Sea Ray L590 with Zeus pods, which I have called an abomination and Capt J called a Pig and we have both been on them so have first hand knowledge. That boat is not a reflection on pods in general, definitely not on IPS, not even on Zeus really, just a reflection on horrific pairing of boat and propulsion.

Neither.

You didn't answer the question. You gave an answer, but not to the question asked.

Well, if I must choose between those two, choosing between a Navetta 68 and Magellano 66, I'd choose the Magellano and has nothing to do with IPS, but the fact I can't believe Absolute is building a 68' to CAT B specifications and not A.