Is there anybody there?

Martin · Senior Member

Is there anybody there?

fingers crossed · Senior Member

Hi Martin,
yeah I guess everyone is busy working on their boats.......wish I was (no I'm not volunteering), but waiting for my boat as you probably know.....still a long way off though!
I think you are right about lifting your engine to make everything else easier.
How much fuel do you carry in total, but I would guess from your figures, around 320 gallons. I think mine is going to hold around 200 gallons (100 either side) which makes me wonder how long it will last with twin 370hp engines, but I understand the newer engines are quite efficient now......I hope so!!
Still trying to make up my mind on Furuno MFD 12 or Simrad NSE 12 combi's, both are the best from reports by the people selling them. In fact I went to the boatshow at Excel in january which was very quiet, fortunately, with those two manufacturers in mind and came away with Garmin and Raymarine in my thoughts as well......just depends on who you talk to about them. Must admit I did like the 3D fish eye view on the Garmin though!
My hands are clean until my boat arrives.
Cheers.
Dave.

Martin · Senior Member

Hi Dave

You are exactly right 320 gallons is max fuel load, one of each port stbd and stern tanks @ 100 gals each and approx 20 in the sump tank which was fitted to prevent LJ sucking air from her original tanks when rolling in heavy seas with a low fuel load.

You are in a good postition to get some good deals on your kit if fitting out a boat from scratch. I know what you mean about the differences from manufacturers too, however, I am kept in check by price not desire. I have just been working on Elizabeth G for a few trips over winter and she has Olex on the plotter which I have found fantastic. It continually maps the sea bed and remembers info to up date the charts by means of ''boxes'' and you can do a 3D fly by of wrecks and features - very clever.

We must be due some new pictures pretty soon?

Cheers

Martin

fingers crossed · Senior Member

Hi again Martin,
the Olex chart system you mention sounds an interesting piece of kit and I guess mainly used by commercial fishermen so I suspect pricey??? My builder is offering good prices on all the equipment I am interested in and of course is willing to fit it, running all the necessary cables and connections at the same time as all the other wiring so it would make sense to let them do it really. I have seen the quality of their wiring too and it is of a very high, neat standard...unlike some I have seen!
Will put some more photo's on here soon when we get on a bit further.
cheers mate.
Dave.

chas · Senior Member

Hi Gents

Nice to see people talking again.

That Olex system sounds good, I'll have to check it out.

My fuel capacity is 700 litres (155 gallons) in a single tank under the c0ckpit floor.

It would be nice to see a photo of your nice clean engine room Martin.

Cheers

Chas

Martin · Senior Member

Hi Chas

I will post a pic of the engine bay when it is done. In the meantime I will put a ''before'' pic of the engine I took yesterday. I spent an hour emptying stinking water out of the bilges and disposing of it. What makes the bilges smell so terrible? I have always used Bilgex. Hopefully once I get them cleaned out properly and painted it will smell a lot sweeter

I will also add a link to the Olex site for those interested www.olex.no/index_e.html

Cheers

Martin

chas · Senior Member

Hi Martin

---"I spent an hour emptying stinking water out of the bilges and disposing of it. What makes the bilges smell so terrible?"--- I don't know mate there's none in mine except a little bit in the skeg and I'm not aware of any smell.

---"I will also add a link to the Olex site for those interested"--- Wow that looks like a really good system, shame it's so pricey. I'll have to look at it some more though.

Cheers and all the best

Chas

Harold Timmer · Senior Member

Hi Martin,

Work here has been keeping me very busy, so apologies for not responding sooner. Good to hear that you got the engine out. Maybe it is also worth while to check the engine mounts. Looking at the engine bay it must have been a bit of a job to getting to everything. It also brings back good memories of my fathers 212 Sabre.

Good luck with it all.

Regards

Harold

Martin · Senior Member

Hi Harold

It's not out yet. I'm still waiting for the engineer to fix the gearbox on the crane then it can be lifted out. Space is very tight all round the engine. Apparently what happened is one owner had the engine box made and engine fitted then the boat was sold. The new owner had the engine box lined with soundproofing efectively reducing the amount of working space, especially on the exhaust side of the engine to zero. I changed the alternator last year and it was a real pain in the rear trying to wrangle it through a gap with 2mm to spare.

The pic doesn't really show how rusty the engine is in places. It is another job ticked off the list though and like you say I can check the engine mounts as well. The bilges are minging so I can really bottom them out and get some clean paint applied and make the whole boat smell sweeter.

Thanks for the good wishes, hope you are not working too hard and are managing at least some time on your boat.

CVheers

Martin