Vertical Intelligence Architecture

01. Intelligent Closed Cooling System
A standard closed cooling system that thinks for you. Regardless of ambient water temperatures, the closed cooling system will send just the right amount of water through the heat exchanger, ensuring optimal and safe cooling at all times. The system integrates engine oil cooling, hydraulic fluid cooling as well as closed engine cooling and has operator warning and throttle reduction safety overrides should foreign objects enter the raw water system.

02. Raw Water System
The PWM-driven (Pulse Width
Modulation) dual redundancy electric raw water system is driven by the DCU and will always supply exactly the right coolant for all the heat exchanger functions.

03. Intelligent Emissions and
Power Control
The Drive Control Unit (DCU) system uses closed loop LAMBDA sensing to set the injectors, valves and throttle positions for optimal emissions and power.

04. Jacketed Stainless Exhausts
Intelligently-designed, stainless steel jacketed exhausts are split between engine coolant and raw water dump to ensure optimal engine operating temperature range and back pressure.

05. Engine Oil System
The design architecture allows for ease of maintenance through a standard external engine oil drain located outside the boat; a wide mouth oil fill pipe to allow oil suction if changing the oil while the boat is moored; and a no mess easy-change position for
the oil filter.

06. Intelligent Integrated Steering
Hydraulic assisted power steering is standard on all drives and offers a very advanced thinking module that applies just the right amount of assist to give optimal operator “feel” and accuracy. A drive position sensor is standard on all models.

07. Intelligent Integrated
Trim and Tilt
The trim and tilt pump and the
hydraulic gear selector are integrated in the same system. An accumulator assesses how much pressure is required for 12 F N R shifts and will top itself up on demand.

08. Floating Vibration Damping
The entire drive architecture is suspended on a unique rubber insulation bed allowing incredible vibration-free smoothness and resistance to catastrophic impact damage.

09. Axis of Excellence
No trimmable drive on the face of the planet gets its power to the propeller like Caudwell Marine's™ Axis Drive™. The drive turns around the engine crank planes axis and it trims around the reduction gear axis. For vibration-free power, there is no substitute.

10. External Gear Oil Fill and Dipstick
Yesterday's designs still use plugs and pumps to fill the gearbox. Not so with Caudwell Marine's™ unique dip-and-fill system. As it is a dry sump system, it requires minimal oil (only 1.5 litres) and checking and filling is as simple as can be. The gear oil drain is through the exhaust diffuser.

11. Stainless Steel Construction
Caudwell Marine™ has pioneered the use of duplex stainless steel thin wall castings as the ultimate in corrosion protection, structural strength and rigidity. The unique stainless 316L cladding system makes this the world's first completely stainless steel drive. No ugly sacrificial anodes are required and no drive has suffered such severe corrosion tests.