Awesome stuff Capt, has been great following the progress of the project, very inspirational...Thanks for sharing this with us all.

Good luck out there, slay some fish, blood the decks...

That would be a splendid idea... Hope some M&M's were involved...

Definitely the cats pyjamas! The transducer setup looks very practical and a well thought out solution. Yes, much fishing to be done, very enjoyably I would say

The rod holders...vertical or angled?

Oh...we re-propped with 14x19" props, as the 17" props were letting her over rev, hitting the limiter at 6500, so now the 19s have brought that back to 6050rpm wide open, still at 35kn, which for 8m is pretty damn quick let me tell you, same figures as for the smaller props at wot, but at lower revs performance has picked up too, she gets out of the hole immediately now, no problems at all and at 4000 rpm she sits on 22kn, which is where I would imagine we will run her most of the time. That was also sitting on 1.8nm/l too going to the motors (each), which is pretty darn good. Full chat she is sucking 1nm/l, according to the NMEA data from the motor.
All in All, have to say I am pretty darn impressed eh.

Now there is a very good question....I have no idea! Lol with motors and all those folks aboard, well over two tonnes I would say.. She has a 6mm hull, 5 mm sides, 4 mm interiors, with an extra 6mm keel strip, giving 12mm tin along the keel, so she is hardly a light boat.

Capt interested to see you have independent titling on a twin rig.  Do you have one or two steering rams?  if you don't mind sharing I'd love to see some closer photos of the steering ram(s) set up.

Thanks Capt.  I've zoomed in and squinted hard, but I can't quite make out what you have. 

Yup, that is what the Ramonalola has too.....

There ya go, that should show off the tie rods etc for you.