's so comfortable and handy at displacement speeds-and so economical, burning about 2 gallons per engine ... lighted and tidy as an operating room. Spacious, too. Straight six-cylinder engines make so much sense ... and routine service points on the engines may not encourage the owner to inspect the machinery every day ...

get without tossing the engines overboard. The genset, air-conditioning compressor and more are beneath the saloon and are muffled to a whisper. The propulsion engines, too, are quiet until the turbos ... to a maximum speed of 32 knots, at which point the engines became a little rowdy. The clear vinyl enclosure ...

-insulated room to port and abaft the main engineroom. An engineer's control room is to starboard. The engineroom ... item of gear: On centerline abaft the engines is a retractable, rotating sternthruster. Like ... , moving Dream at up to four knots without help from her main engines. Imagine the surprise, of those ...

on a raised platform faces the burled-wood-and-leather-trimmed instrument panel. The engine and thruster ... and twin 20kW Kohler gensets. Our test boat had the standard 1,300 hp MAN diesels; engines up 1,500 hp are optional. Access is a bit tight outboard between the fuel tanks and engines, but it's clear redundancy has ...

to reach everything from seacocks to steering to the outboard sides of the engines. There are even aluminum ... with one engine running and quickly had us up to speed again. On many boats, we would have limped back ... with the twin Volvo D12 715hp diesels. Several engine options, including MAN, Caterpillar and Cummins, range ...

. The saloon, master cabin and bridge deck exploit what Hatteras' 38 full-time in-house engineers provided ... . Tunnels travel forward from the transom to the engine pockets, ending near the struts. Sea chests ... are sealed from moisture. Engine access is through a door in the cockpit, which also leads to the crew ...

of Sea Ray's Sport Yacht and Yacht program at the builder's Product Development and Engineering facility ... , and the main engines are immediately forward. Access to the engine's inboard service points is excellent ...

puts a lid on noise, but it makes moving about the engines a bit cumbersome-a small price to pay for the quiet ride. The 700-hp C12 Caterpillar engines drive conventional running gear and sit atop Divinycel-cored stringers capped with aluminum. The engines pull fuel from two saddles and one center ...

engineer and now the builder's American representative, was aboard as I put the boat through her paces ... the machinery is accessible. The Caterpillar engines are fitted in a V-drive configuration to keep draft ... of the starboard engine. Topside, the flying bridge carries an upper helm with three chairs. A bar and alfresco ...

Southern. Diamond-plate flooring, stainless-steel guards around the engine and expertly laid wire runs ... because Fernstrum keel coolers cool both engines. Additional features include Dahl double fuel filters ... of flooding, and an emergency exit is concealed behind the headliner. By placing the engines and machinery aft ...

, and the throne-like flying bridge set well aft on the house. To achieve those low lines, the engines (like ... Recovery watermaker, GE appliances, Cruisair a/c, VacuFlush heads, MMC Cruise Command electronic engine controls, Delta T engine air-filter system and custom electrical panel. Underway, the Midnight Lace was a pure ...