Ken-
Thanks so much for that in depth and current answer, and I agree fully with your decisions. Though I am not an experienced long range cruiser yet, it makes sense that technological advances would improve wet exhaust options, and hybrid propulsion, when perfected on smaller boats, seems like an incredibly exciting future advancement that should greatly extend range and decrease trips to the fuel docks. Oh how I wish we had the time for a Nordhavn and crossing oceans, but we are currently forced to go with the fuel demolishing express cruising local several hundred mile max type of boating. But any cruising is good cruising :)
We will continue to follow the development of SSII closely, and my wife and I love the fact that you added the hot tub. In fact, that is one of my wife's requirements for our future long range plans, and I was thrilled to show her that it had been done on the beautiful new 68. Before I had only seen it included on the 86. As you said, if everything we did was practical, we certainly would not be boaters :)
Thank you again. We wish you and Roberta continued safe travels, happiness and health.
Edward
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