[PUP] Emergency Power (The Dashew's trip planning)

[Scott E. Bulger]

Brian suggested:  Sorry, but isn't the 'wing' engine in most cases linked to
the main shaft
rather than having a shaft of its own??

Scott:  Not on a Nordhavn.  All the Nordhavn's I know of (except the 35 and
perhaps the twins) have a separate wing, shaft and folding prop.  The term
"most" applying to all boats would need to include all fishing trawlers and
production cruising trawlers.  I'm not aware of any definitive statistics to
allow anyone to make the statement "most"...


Brian added:  And if you leave this undisturbed 'emergency' fuel suppy set
for quite a
while, the fuel turns sour, particularly these days??

Scott:  Any competent skipper runs his wing to maintain its service life.
This includes periodically refreshing the supply of fuel in the wing tank
from a known good supply of fuel.  It isn't hard to insure it's full of good
clean fuel as you add fuel from your existing tanks after verifying it's
good.  Quite simple really.

Scott Bulger, Alanui, N40II, Seattle Wa