T&T: Realistic horse power for boats (was 3160 Cat Diesels and Repowering 20 Ton Boat)

[Alec McLocklin (amclockl)]

Up to 3 months ago I would have not recommended this option, but with
fuel prices going to the roof, a local yacht broker is telling me that
all of the potential buyers through his office in the last month would
jump at a large sport fish with smaller engines. Its all about space
with efficiency now.


Alec



-----Original Message-----
From: trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces@lists.samurai.com
[mailto:trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces@lists.samurai.com] On Behalf Of
Graham Pugh
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:09 AM
To: Arild Jensen; T&T
Subject: Re: T&T: Realistic horse power for boats (was 3160 Cat Diesels
and Repowering 20 Ton Boat)

I missed the original post.   Having owned a Mainship 390 with a Yanmar
300
hp turbo charged engine,  I couldn't agree more with Arild's opinion.
The only time I ever had the engine up to WAT was when  I bought and
sold the trawler during sea trials. This semi displacement hull would
have been perfectly happy with a very much smaller engine probably half
the size, but many of this popular model were sold with very much larger
engines than mine.

I've just returned from a trip to UK where I had rented a Peugeot 307
1.4 litre. This comfortable mid sized car by British standards had
plenty of power  and averaged 6.5/ litres per 100 km or about 36 miles
per US gal.
None of our three US made cars average anything like that fuel
consumption
:-)

Graham Pugh
Kando  11
Kingston, ON
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