How many hours of work does that entail? Or, perhaps I should ask, how
much of your boat has to come apart for engine removal?



The engine has never been out of my boat.
Jack Sarin, the NA, designed for this particular situation.

There is a double wide hatch in the floor of the salon, but the starboard side
of the hatch is under the U-shaped settee for the dinette. Access to the engine
room is down through the port side of the hatch.
The center ine of the hatch is directly over the keel, and the center of the
engine.

The forward leg of the settee has a "seam" in it. Removing the joinery inboard
of this seam and the raised portion of the cabin sole that supports the legs of
the dinette table allows access to the starboard portion of the hatch. It also
clears a path between the engine hatch and the starboard pilothouse door,
suitable for the insertion of a cherry picker and the withdrawl of the engine.

While the engine is out, I'm going to have the tanks inspected very carefully.
If they are in any way suspect, then out they come. At $7k to partially
disassemble the boat, remove the engine, reinstall the engine, and rebuild the
interior......I don't want to do this again in a few years when (or if) the
fuel tanks give out.