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Thanks for the nice comments, Alex. I think you are asking about direct drives of gearless design..... as I said above, we are fairly agnostic about the rotor and drive type, and there is no reason why a gearless design, of say the Open Hydro type, should not be fitted - there are certainly less parts to go wrong (which is presumably why you like them). And we actually show on one of our brochure images gearless turbines mounted to Triton.

Having said that, gearless designs tend to be rather large diameter and heavy compared to geared drives, and I do wonder whether the final cost effectiveness of a gearless drive - even allowing for potentially less maintenance - will actually allow it to compete in cost terms. After all, most ships and most marine drives use gearboxes rather than direct drives. But yes, we could certainly accommodate these on Triton.