Mmm... The (very experienced, allegedly) Captain declared in that Triton article that the azipods began malfunctioning well before what can be...
Agreed - it's no coincidence that in my boat I deliberately preferred to have the latest mechanical engines with cable levers, rather than some...
I could understand the C32, but sticking 35xx engines in a fast powerboat is totally unheard of. There's much more than power alone to consider,...
Amazing that the helmsman doesn't seem to have used the horn. A catastrophic electrical fault, possibly?
If you are referring to my "almost 300lb each side" comment, that's actually 134Kg each side, according to the respective manufacturers' specs....
Absolutely. And that's true not only for Arnies, but also for any transmission equipment, like g/boxes or v-drives. Btw, I struggle to understand...
That would be good news, because the whole engine monitoring system was actually designed and built by Böning. In fact, the only difference...
Of course there are 50'+ boats that are better/worse than others, but that's not what you said. You said that one 55 footer among them (I don't...
Thanks to you for appreciating. Long time no seen by the way, how's things? I hope all is well. In the meantime, eventually we came back to what...
You must know nothing of Italian boatbuilding history in the last decade, if you have to ask that...
Of course my previous post was incomplete, that's why I also uploaded (in post#25) the specific schedule for the 183 TE93, as published by MTU,...
Well, did you check out the MTU abstract I previously posted? Oil change (just as an example) is indeed mentioned, and included in either W2 or W3...
Capt J, I told you in not unclear terms that I didn't agree with most of what you said, and I tried to explain why. After understanding that you...
That's the so called B60Y. Completely different animal, a sort of (failed) attempt to compete with Ferretti, Sanlorenzo, and other flybridge...
Thanks to you for your appreciation. It surely makes sense to check the maintenance history and calibrate your potential on that basis. For this...
+1. Actually, I would go with anything over IPS any day! :)
I wouldn't be too concerned by the hours per se, but if the boat was built with those engines she must be 20 years old, or almost. And according...
Well, at least that answers what I wanted to ask you, i.e. if there is a builder anywhere in the world of which you didn't helm more boats than...
Wow, good thing that Dick Bertram and Ray Hunt can't read your comments anymore. Anyway, if that's the reasoning and attitude on which basis you...
That would be your personal decision, and as such you are obviously fully entitled to it. It just happens to be a wrong one, and I can think of at...
