Back to OP -- you still there? Are existing engines inline R6-800s? Or V8 2848LE401s or 403s or whatever? What is it about them that's causing...
Our MAN guy told me the I6s are significantly lighter than our V8-900s (same block as your V8-800s, if that's what your originals are). So you...
I should have also mentioned winter heat around here needs a solution too. We don't always have hard freezes, but water temps will be lower than...
Yes, and/or maybe. Remember as length increases, so does beam... and the resulting increase in overall spaciousness (?) starts getting a bit...
Our recent Citimarine replacements were following advice from our nearby Dometic installer. Something about reimbursements for Dometic warranty...
Ours came with Cruisair Stowaway self-contained units. Replaced a couple with Dometic turbos (which started life as a Marine Airrrrrr model)...
You can do both. Keyboards can fit nicely in a decent sized boat. :) You might find boats don't have to be huge to live aboard. And larger...
Bordering on crazy, but maybe there are options... First, we have no significant experience (although we did charter out an earlier boat a few...
So maybe useful questions to the seller would be how many hours were on the engines before they were rebuilt, and why were they rebuilt. Probably...
What's the Viking's beam? We have the third (423) iteration of those V-8 engines as described by @mapism , ours being electronic and 900 hp....
No personal experience, but they have a great rep... and boatloads of models/layouts to choose from. And support from Sam's Marine (or some such)...
We tried that route, a few boats ago, although in ~34' boats so smaller than what you're thinking. I didn't like the ladder in the first...
In the meantime, you might also search the forums to see if previous posts about either boat might give you useful info. -Chris
Call the folks at N? -Chris
Buck Algonquin is now Hydrasearch... and you can maybe also find useful info on their site... including strainers if yours are also BA. And then...
Often if you can remove the bezels and lenses... you can just replace the original halogen/xenon/whatever bulbs with LED replacements. See...
Correction: I meant bronze street Tees... -Chris
Groco has some male-male nipples, with wrench flats in the middle. In our case, decent bronze street elbows might have been useful... but they...
You could make the equivalent out of either Schedule 80 PVC or bronze fittings. Or there might be a Forespar/Marelon fitting out there somewhere....
FWIW, some other fora -- with significant liveaboard communities -- might be able to give you more insight into answers to questions like that....
