On May 22, 8:48 am, Charlie Morgan wrote:
On 22 May 2007 08:09:33 -0700, Chuck Gould





wrote:
On May 21, 6:34 am, Charlie Morgan wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:40:25 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:52:57 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

They are rolling along now on their counter clockwise Great Loop.

Follow along.

http://dnkcruising.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the link. I was reading that he had an engine problem a
couple of days before they set off. I hate that. If he's anything like
me, he'll now have that little seed of doubt in the back of his mind,
just festering. Man, I hate that.

He's a handy guy. Hopefully, it's fixed and the rest will be smooth
sailing.

When Doug bought that tub, many folks questioned the wisdom of a
single engine. Doug's blustery over-confident reply was that with only
one engine, he'd lavish it with twice as much maintenance. Looks like
that was just more wind.

CWM

Darn good thing you never see a twin engine boat getting towed back to
the dock.

Advantages of twins:

1. Redundancy
2. May be easier to handle in some close quarter situations.

(both are important)

Disadvantages of twins:

1. Fuel consumption is 100% higher at the same rpm, (but often only
about 80% higher
at the same speed)

Really? 2 100 hp engines use twice as much fuel as a single 200hp
engine? Amazing! Who woulda thunk it?

It would be extremely atypical to put in two engines each rated at
half the horsepower of a single application. Performance in many cases
would be *worse* than the single engine alternative, as you would be
trying to move a heavier boat with the same total HP.






4. Exposed running gear. (more people probably lose propulsion because
they have torn off a strut or damaged an exposed shaft that los
propulsion doe to the failure of a pproperly maintained diesel engine)

Bzzzt. Fuel problems occur far more often than tearing off a strut.
Not even close

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Bzzt back at ya..... most fuel problems will disable both engines on a
twin setup. Sounds like Doug had a mechanical problem, ot actually a
fuel problem. Seems like it was with his with his lift pump. That's a
part that works until it fails, not really anything to "maintain"