Hi Peter - we don't have much of a problem with fouling up here in the Great Lakes. The water isn't too warm and even at my home mooring on an inland lake with a channel to Lake Michigan I don't build up much of anything on the hull, even at the water line where the sun aids the growth.
I'm leaning more towards the pods but would have them on fixed mounts and retain my rudder. The current hydraulic steering system is well overbuilt and has the autopilot integrated into it. So retaining all of that functionality makes sense, while avoiding the complexity of making the pods twist. I'll be laminating extra layers of marine ply on the inside if I go the pod route, and am thinking about creating internal boxes above the mountings. The boxes would extend above the water line, and in the worst case of tearing a pod off the boat the flooding would be confined to the box, sort of a sea-chest for each pod.
I agree that the stock props look like they would do the job, and should be spinning fairly slowly at partial power.
Lars
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