Hi, Willy :{))

All the jibes aside/ignored as your usual rabble-rousing, I'm impressed...

"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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I repowered my positive flotation, blue water, cruising yacht for $1,500.

A new 6HP saildrive unit for $1500. Now THAT's impressive.

FWIW, even the little Honda genset which we do use occasionally when there's
no wind and sun to allow my green reseources to charge us up/keep us full,
has many users reporting upward of 10,000 hours.

Perkins 4-154s in farm service regularly get that much time on them as well.

As such, barring some excitement we can't foresee, as we've just gone over
4k hours on the rebuilt unit which was installed during a prior owner's
time, following (presuming the hourmeter which was still in place when the
new tach/hourmeter was installed was stopped on the exchange, or perhaps
before) hard charter service of nearly 7 years, we expect we'll never get to
the end of the life of our auxiliary propulsion unit.

That said, parts for this unit are becoming a bit like hen's teeth, and a
critical part failure could result in a repower. If so, I expect that we'd
go to a Cummins unit which is pretty close to a drop-in.

Costs, of course, are an issue - but we have reserves for that specific
purpose. Downtime would be about a day, as there are no exhangeable parts,
and the mechanics of removal and replacement are pretty straightforward. A
sistership just installed a rebuilt in less than a day, which is about what
I'd expect for ours, should the day arrive.

Careful maintenance has us expecting a very long life on Perky...

So, when are you going to come whip our sorry asses cruising the Bahamas?
We'll be here, we expect, for almost another year, unless, when we come back
in a couple of weeks, we decide to head further before coming back for a
wedding in March of next year.

After that, we don't have any plans, because cruising plans are always
subject to change, but we might do Mexico (after the FL coast and keys,
which we've jumped over every other time), or the WC, or, just come back to
the Bahamas and work our way down to the EC...

L8R

Skip and Lydia

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