Seakeeper Gyro Stabilization

[nautibake]

I have heard 70-100k. Anyone else have pricing info?

I don’t know about pricing for the new company, but hope to find out at FLIBS. I pulled the receipts from when PO installed the 2 Seakeepers on our boat. $74K x 2 for the M8000 gyro units, another $$30K for parts and labor. There was a separate charge for cutting out the aft deck so they could be lowered in, and beefing up the stringers but there were some unrelated items in there so maybe another $15K. In all, about $200K.

 

[krush]

In all, about $200K.

As I said years ago in this thread, I'm in the wrong business.

 

[MVCaprice]

As I said years ago in this thread, I'm in the wrong business.

For that price!!!! I can only imagine the 'you need two because one is not enough' discussion!

 

[nautibake]

For that price!!!! I can only imagine the 'you need two because one is not enough' discussion!

Actually it was the PO that insisted on the 2 units even though one can stabilize the boat. He was still on active duty as a Naval Aviator and his last duty station was Gitmo and he believed (apparently quite strongly) in redundancy.

As I said years ago in this thread, I'm in the wrong business.

Krush - Exactly! I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be in the market for gyro's any time soon, but I posted the new manufacturer because I think some healthy competition would be very good (and the apparent fact that the new models don't need raw water cooling). Also, I am admittedly not sure what Seakeepers patents are on exactly, but should be interesting to watch how the new market entrant does.

 

[krush]

Actually it was the PO that insisted on the 2 units even though one can stabilize the boat. He was still on active duty as a Naval Aviator and his last duty station was Gitmo and he believed (apparently quite strongly) in redundancy.

Hmmm....I thought all military folks were impoverished and poor because they don't get paid fair wages.

 

[Cricket]

Quick Marine bought the Italian company that was making these gyro's so it's not a new product, just the distribution to the US is new. Looks like Quick is really trying to capture market share in the US, sort of a similar product line up as Imtra. Only familiar with their lights, don't know about any of the other products.