[PUP] Ok, what is your thoughts about get home engines

[L. Bruce Jones]

For what it's worth, I'm a fan of a twin engine single screw 
arrangement which is common in the larger diesel electric submarines 
we build, albeit with the complexity of the motor generators.

With the 85' passagemaker we've designed, the twin engine, single 
screw arrangement provides for optimum efficiency for cost effective 
cruising with one engine and ample power for adverse conditions with 
two engines. There is mechanical redundancy, similarity of spares and 
with the keel and rudder configuration a minimum chance of a prop 
strike or entanglement. The system also avoids the under-load 
problems caused by operating a single larger diesel at low RPM. You 
are not investing in any components that won't get used and there is 
no added parasitic drag.
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