Yeah, providing you don't pickup more than a couple of handfuls of it. I was on a 160' megayacht that was anchoring in shallow water, stirred up...
Pick up some sand (running the watermaker while maneuvering/anchoring) or a little fuel or oil in it when you run it and it will wipe the...
They'd be fine to run at 1000 rpms for 6 hours, then run them at cruise for 30 minutes to blow them out..... no reason they shouldn't have the...
Raceboats experimented with inward rotation props, it added a few mph, but the boats wouldn't turn at speed and could not dock them either, so...
If your generator is running on a gas boat, the blowers should be on the entire time the generator is running, even if the engines are not.
Gear ratios can be found anywhere from 1:1-4:1 gear reduction and depends on how the manufacturer does things....I know of one 70' SF manufacturer...
That reminds me, I ran a 1979 41' Viking SF once with 6-71 Naturals, this boat was unbearably noisy on the flybridge and in the cockpit at 9 knots...
GPH at cruise would be 55-60GPH for both engines. Don't quote me on this but cruise speed around 26 knots.
WOOD boat and 3 18 cylinder CRN engines???? You need to not run or take a car, but you need a fighter jet to run from this one!
Fish like noise. Some engines are notorious for raising fish based on their sound (old detroits, newer cats) and some are horrible (Volvo's)....
Then they should work. A lot of times you can't get the Cabo's to go so slow even with trolling gears. I tried them on the Cats and could only...
Don't think you're going to get down to 1.5 knots on one gear even with the trolling valves open.
30F I think ANY diesel is going to smoke a lot at that temperature and it's not recommended to even start a diesel under 60F without block heaters...
I'm in the same camp. Generally I see usage of about 30 gallons per day on boats with no cooking (ie very little dish washing) 50 gallons per day...
In all honesty, theres nothing wrong with the 4-71, you just don't and never have come across many in the real world....6-71's you see TONS of,...
I like FCI and they're based on the West coast. I would lean towards something that has a good dealer for them in your area. Watermakers Inc...
I would put the house bank and flybridge bank on a battery selector switch to both the batteries they initially came off of and the inverter bank....
No the motors are too large for 12 volt starters. You can parallel from one bank to the other bank, if the house brings it down. I certainly...
It's not a good thing to shut them down on the emergency flaps. It can cause the motors to suck some of the seals in and they start leaking. But...
There should be flappers in the blowers, whenever they are activated they have to be manually opened and locked in the open position. It's a...
