Nomad Willy
Guru
twisted tree,
Re your post #116 are you suggesting one needs to read 100posts to see if they will be on topic? Not me.
Re your post #116 are you suggesting one needs to read 100posts to see if they will be on topic? Not me.
I have read a few articles about this. The one point I remember and think it to be true. Usually, if you loose an engine it's a fuel thing.
Quite simply a self perpetuating myth. Unless of course:
In the half dozen or so times I've had an engine become balky or dead weight it was never fuel. Years ago when a youngster and worked in the boat repair business ditto, hardly ever bad fuel.
- You fill up routinely in the Bahamas or Mexico,
- have dirty 30+ year old tanks or
- a deck leak in the around the filling apparatus .
Those who sell polishing systems, magnets, additives and write articles on the virtues of product line will thump drum saying the "bad fuel is the Number 1 cause of diesel engine shutdowns." Just advertising BS like LSMFT (remember that one?) or put a tiger in your tank.
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So, form your own preferences but initially don't reject singles or twins or anything else until you've actually explored it.
As it turned out, the cruising boat we bought here in the PNW is a twin (the same boat was made in both single and twin configurations so it could have gone the other way).
Sixteen years later and we will never own anything but a multi-engine boat.
But..... if the cruiser we bought back in 1998 had been the single-engine version, today we would undoubtedly be making exactly the same statement only it would end with "...but a single-engine boat."
I don't know where you do your boating.
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twisted tree,
Re your post #116 are you suggesting one needs to read 100posts to see if they will be on topic? Not me.
Not sure if I have seen it or not...posted or even with my policy....anyone have insurance info about travelling and number of engines or related safety issues?
....or they are spanking the twin guys pooling them with the single group that must ultimately wind up in danger or get towed more....
With Insurance companies being the ultimate financial risk managers....either they think either single or twin must be pretty much the same....or they must charge differently....or they are spanking the twin guys pooling them with the single group that must ultimately wind up in danger or get towed more....
Don't know if experience and captain's licenses meant a thing or if having a classed boat did. It's all like they take the information into some magic room and throw it up in the air and an answer comes out.
I agree on the fatter wallet I could not afford twins. Marine parts can eat you out of a boating season in a hurry. If you truly plan on going where no else every goes or lives why are you going there in the first place? Most locations you might tow a local or they will tow you. The more remote usually the more friendly people are. Good luck on finding a boat and run it about 500 hrs. If you are still running you will have work most the problems out. The least will be the motor or motors I bet.
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During our Pacific crossing from San Diego to Hawaii, I could not shake the inherent stress of 'What happens when the the big beast stops?' Turn on your wing engine right? Yeah, well I tried that, and she pushes us along smartly at 2.8 knots. That’s it. We could probably do 3 if we kept the peddle to the metal but that would not be sustained, and would also be foolish. So 2.8 knots it is.
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Have fun out there - & Happy New Year!
Don't two engines have twice the failure rate of a single engine?
Good gosh! All this scary talk about the potential for single engine disaster has gotten me thinking about going back to my "Auxiliary Sail" lifestyle.
Good gosh! All this scary talk about the potential for single engine disaster has gotten me thinking about going back to my "Auxiliary Sail" lifestyle.