| I would keep your options open for now until you get to try it on the pond. You might just be a little bit over critical at the moment and picking up on every tiny thing that may not even bother you when it is on the water. Don't actually fix them into the boat until you have tested them on the water and you can then best decide it the noise is an issue or not.
As an example I have a Slipways Envoy tug with a geared hectaperm motor. When I first tried it out I was very dissapointed with the noise it made but when I got it on the pond and I got used to it I don't even notice it now.
Maybe even a bit of sound insulation is all it might require on the inside surfaces.
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