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...
The Tennis match screws up everything in Key Biscayne like nobody's business. Quite frankly, the marine stadium was on Key Biscayne a long time...
I can see trucks using another method because most OTR truckers just leave them idling all night long at the truck stop while they sleep.
No, not that i have ever heard of. CAT records fuel burned and has a fuel burn average and recommends maintanence based on fuel burned or hours....
I also am in the camp that this situation is very far from normal. The only plausible connection for having both shafts break in 300 hours...
What you want to do is a fix in search of a problem. In order for saltwater to corrode things you need oxygen present (air), without that...
What he's trying to say is that fresh water flushing the engine helps prevent some scaling of the heat exchangers. But in reality, it might help...
