@Eric Ballard I don't have pricing info worked out at the moment but I can assure you it will be well below the $1000 that another company is charging for their single engine product.
I can also tell you that the reverse on your Yamaha will still be intuitive like driving your car in reverse or any other outboard or stern drive. BRP powered jet boats have very aggressive reverse control but there are two flaws (IMHO) in their design.
1) BRP reverse gates channel so much water laterally the boat lurches rather abruptly when giving reverse control and added rpm's above neutral. The abruptness caused people to complain about it and BRP engineers responded with Docking Mode, which basically limits the thrust that you can apply while in docking situations.
2) the steering is counter-intuitive to someone's expectancy of how the stern is going to respond when steering while in reverse. In a panic situation or while learning the operator will steer to the wrong side, falling back on their experience with driving their car or previous stern drive/outboard, thus causing the boat to go the opposite way they intended for it to go.
You can rest assured that when this product is installed on your boat the reverse steering will be controlled but not abrupt and will be intuitive with little need to learn how to use the product. You'll simply drive and the product will work as intended without lessons or instruction.
@Murf'n'surf we will take these questions as recommendations for new video content and will create demonstrations that will benefit you and address how the product will benefit you. We chose these particular videos as our first for several reasons. We wanted to show what it does without showing IT, and we wanted to show something that could be measured and easily replicated by anyone with little experience. We did the best we could do to get the weather to cooperate with us but like every outing on the boat, the wind waves and current can change within seconds thus making it nearly impossible to reproduce the exact conditions from test to test. We've settled on averaging our results and will use those averages when making statements about our product's performance and what you should expect if you were to install it on your boat.
@robert843 I think that our product gives sufficient control in reverse to give the operator confidence that they can put the boat where they want it. I will not claim that the product will reproduce the same level of lateral thrust that a BRP will, but I purposefully wanted to avoid that in our design because I feel that the BRP gates give too much lateral control and it makes me feel very nervous while steering in reverse, that paired with the counter-intuitive nature of the BRP reverse.
