Smarter, he can now get to where he's going in mere hours instead of days, and not get a free saltwater shower in the process!
I think the extra time helps for the EGT to get hot enough and really bake anything out of the airboxes and stuff. But, I like that for at least...
I don't think so. Last time I was through there was several months ago and there was nothing there. There was the broken off I beam that stuck...
1000 rpms I mean. WHat I do is after doing 1000 rpms for 6 hours, is bring them up to 1350 and let them bake off the soot for about 5 minutes or...
Guess they were trying to take the short cut to Trinidad! Because typically it's mostly all really deep water around there. Looks like a really...
That's fine. I was recommended by the D.D. here in Fort Lauderdale to run 12v71 TI's at 2050 rpms for 30 minutes, after running 1000 hours every...
It depends. If you purchase it looking for income, rent on capital investment it does pretty well. You can get a 10% ROI if you pick your...
Nice. I never heard of Ocean putting Yanmars in. Was she repowered and what speed does she do at cruise and WOT?
On the unit itself. They are a washable screen, also the return vents sometimes have a s/s mesh filter behind them also. Look for the return...
I actually saw them do that on the ICW to get under one fixed bridge several years back. Works pretty good to shorten your masthead...
Collinite wax.
They're pretty bulletproof motors. Stay away from fuel with ethanol in it. Service them annually. Keep a spare set of fuel filters on board and...
Same efficiency but the price of gasoline is about a $1 a gallon more on the outboards. BUT, you can get in much tighter places with the...
I wouldn't be afraid to run them 1900 rpms. Several D.D. diesel factory mechanics told me it doesn't even hurt to run them 2050 rpms if propped...
What speed were you getting? Around 19 knots at 1800?
Check listings on yachtworld. Most of them have pictures of the interior.
Make one yourself. Get a propellor curve chart from CAT for your HP, and read the fuel numbers at a given RPM off the propellor curve chart...
Most of the 12v71 TI's I've run, will have an idle oil pressure of less than 12 lbs, one would be around 4-5 lbs at idle with hot oil. 1900 rpms...
I ran a 1979 58' Hatteras YF for years that had mechanical driven tachs (no hour meters in them), it had pretty darn long runs to the flybridge...
However, 99.9% of the tachs I've seen are simply electric and record the hours the engine has been running. They just have a feed off of the oil...
