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I think the Cat is the wrong direction for your personality. I sense
that you are a gadget freak like me. Here is the repower option for certain engine nervana. :-) http://www.thesandpebbles.com/san_pa...blo_engine.htm Jim Woodward wrote: Thanks. As I say on site, the Lister is a real conundrum. I love the thing. It will run forever, even on three cylinders. Absolutely rock solid dependable. It has three ways of cooling (three pumps have to fail to shut it down) and two ways of providing lube oil pressure, can run either wet or dry sump. It has a nice sound. It has temp gauges on every cylinder -- full instrumentation both below and in the wheelhouse. I have an exhaust valve sitting on my desk -- 3.5" diameter x 10" tall. It's a wonder. To start it, you go down in the engine room, turn on the lube oil (remote dry sump), the seawater main, and the 24v to the starter, spin a wheel on the front to decompress, bar the flywheel over a couple of times to make sure everything's free, and push a button on the "Motormatic" box. Relays start clicking, the prelube pump (24v) starts, and oil pressure comes up. When oil pressure hits 50psi, the starter engages. After a quarter turn or so, you spin off the decompress and it starts. The prelube pump stops. You turn off the 24v to the starter and let it warm up for a few minutes. You can shut it down from the wheelhouse, but you have to go down and shut off the lube oil. Now, this is a wonderful sequence, particularly the Motormatic (in this age of computer everything), but can you imagine trying to sell it as a yacht over here in fifteen years? It has a number of little open catch basins for fuel that leaks off. It's hard mounted to huge engine beds, so the whole boat vibrates when it's running -- four huge pistons, and while you can practically count the strokes, they're very present. The official RN manual says that you shouldn't run the boat between 7.5 and 10 knots, only faster or slower (top is 10.3), because of various resonances. Parts are beginning to be a problem (new starter $4,000). And, as also shown graphically on the site, it's huge (see http://www.mvfintry.com/pix/erplan800.png) -- the Cat 3406 is no little thing, but look at the difference. While the engine room is 20 feet square, I've got a lot to go in it and removing the Lister helps. And so forth. I'm sad, though. I'll miss it, except when trying to sleep. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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See my comment to Larry, above -- triple expansion steam is great.
Both of us are machinery nuts -- Dee talks her way onto all sorts of vessels just to see the engine room. We looked at a lot of tugboats in our search for Fintry, and saw a lot of wonderful machines. Finally concluded, though, that tugboats were all engine room and no space for anything else. Who needs 2,000hp in an 80' displacement hull unless you're going to tow something. Otherwise it's just a mechanism for converting diesel into bow wave. -- Jim Woodward www.mvFintry.com .. "Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message news:9esrb.12620$62.6334@lakeread04... I think the Cat is the wrong direction for your personality. I sense that you are a gadget freak like me. Here is the repower option for certain engine nervana. :-) http://www.thesandpebbles.com/san_pa...blo_engine.htm Jim Woodward wrote: Thanks. As I say on site, the Lister is a real conundrum. I love the thing. It will run forever, even on three cylinders. Absolutely rock solid dependable. It has three ways of cooling (three pumps have to fail to shut it down) and two ways of providing lube oil pressure, can run either wet or dry sump. It has a nice sound. It has temp gauges on every cylinder -- full instrumentation both below and in the wheelhouse. I have an exhaust valve sitting on my desk -- 3.5" diameter x 10" tall. It's a wonder. To start it, you go down in the engine room, turn on the lube oil (remote dry sump), the seawater main, and the 24v to the starter, spin a wheel on the front to decompress, bar the flywheel over a couple of times to make sure everything's free, and push a button on the "Motormatic" box. Relays start clicking, the prelube pump (24v) starts, and oil pressure comes up. When oil pressure hits 50psi, the starter engages. After a quarter turn or so, you spin off the decompress and it starts. The prelube pump stops. You turn off the 24v to the starter and let it warm up for a few minutes. You can shut it down from the wheelhouse, but you have to go down and shut off the lube oil. Now, this is a wonderful sequence, particularly the Motormatic (in this age of computer everything), but can you imagine trying to sell it as a yacht over here in fifteen years? It has a number of little open catch basins for fuel that leaks off. It's hard mounted to huge engine beds, so the whole boat vibrates when it's running -- four huge pistons, and while you can practically count the strokes, they're very present. The official RN manual says that you shouldn't run the boat between 7.5 and 10 knots, only faster or slower (top is 10.3), because of various resonances. Parts are beginning to be a problem (new starter $4,000). And, as also shown graphically on the site, it's huge (see http://www.mvfintry.com/pix/erplan800.png) -- the Cat 3406 is no little thing, but look at the difference. While the engine room is 20 feet square, I've got a lot to go in it and removing the Lister helps. And so forth. I'm sad, though. I'll miss it, except when trying to sleep. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 10:31:21 -0500, "Jim Woodward" jameslwoodward at
attbi dot com wrote: Who needs 2,000hp in an 80' displacement hull unless you're going to tow something. Otherwise it's just a mechanism for converting diesel into bow wave. I think the same thing every time I see a pleasure trawler with over 125hp or twin engines. What are they going to do, plow up the bottom? We see Super Nordic Tugs on the ICW plowing their way to Florida on their big twin diesels using enormous quantities of diesel as they plow their way through Charleston. Doesn't look like they're any faster than the ones burning far less fuel from a 120 Lehman at a liesurely pace.... How silly. If they're in a hurry, there are jet planes!...... Larry W4CSC "Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!" |
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