. “Victor, are you ready to start the engines?” I asked the captain. “They’re running,” he replied ... Duncan Cowie, the man now running this 25-year-old company, along with engineer Adi Shard, founder Tony ... ’s quietness are the new V-8 common-rail 1,000-horsepower MAN diesel engines instead of the normally specified ...

lie aft behind the engine room and are accessed from a door to port. While this is well ... to the engine room, a captain’s double berth cabin, a crew cabin with bunks for three and a stewardesses cabin ...

by traditional shaft systems with V-drive gears. Like a pod, a V-drive puts the engines near the stern, shifting ... with engines farther forward. Not only does this make for drier running in a seaway, with a quicker lift ... are drawn down. The space between the tanks allows easy access to the engine room through a watertight door ...

spacious engine room; and live-aboard couples who realize they don’t need a slow boat to have real living ... . A barbecue grill, wet bar and ice maker keep the party happily outside. For access to the engine room ... , this provided standing headroom for me, and I’m about 6 feet 2 inches tall. The engine room is large enough ...

controls. The cherry helm console has room for three large displays. Engine instruments, throttles, and bow ... liveable, but what impressed me the most was the engine room. It’s huge, with four watertight doors separating machinery compartments and the engines space. There’s a workbench and freezer. It’s well ...

,” notes Smith. The hull is finished, the engines are going in, then the tanks, then the soles. “The ... and twice the volume of the 86,” Smith remarks. “The systems will reflect that. Overhead piping. The engine ... Series 2000 M72 engines, with 965 horsepower each at 2,250 rpm, will enable a cruising range of 3,000 nm ...

Marine and with the crew at Selene Seattle, the Northwest dealership. “I’m an engineer and a project ... in the guest area.” He also added a watertight teak-faced door from the master into the engine room so he could check the engines without having to go through the lazarette. The portside guest cabin was reconfigured ...

-second basis. Huge screens carry split views of radars, fishfinders, chart plotting and the like, while engine ... improper functions,” says a marine engineer from Garmin ( www.garmin.com ). “A microprocessor system has ...

for other vessels that may be on a collision course. Instruments: The engine and navigation ... the digital engine instrumentation with line-of-sight analog gauges. A door to the side deck is nearby ...

on and off the boat ( www.maretron.com ). A live demo that let me view an engine room camera and switch ...

manager for ARGUS, developed by SURVICE Engineering. "I think most people are pretty happy ... is partnered with Marine Satellite Systems and GEOSat Solutions, which are engineering the units, and the GIS ... are that the price will be below $1,000. Stay tuned. ARGUS Development Team, SURVICE Engineering, (410) 297 ...

-looking sonar and networked engine- and systems-monitoring equipment. Determining which of these items you want ...

equipment providers are constantly looking to improve their products and engineer in better performance ... as an applications engineer and ever since I started working with IPS, I started thinking about repower,” says Tom Eckel, an applications engineer for Volvo Penta, who is repowering his own 1974 Bertram 38 ...

.garmin.com ) and asked its lead marine engineers about the possibility of distributed power integration with their helm ... on spare parts, and maybe even forge a personal relationship with an ED&D engineer. Distributed power ...