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Old 04-28-2015, 06:23 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by caltexflanc View Post
Any examples of a boat there the twin engine version has the same engine as the single? .
Sure. All the Grand Banks models that were offered as single or twins almost always used the same engines in each version. For example, our 1973 GB36, one of the first batch of GB36s made in fiberglass, is a twin with two FL120s. The single engine version of the same boat from the same time period uses one FL120. The same was true of the earlier wood models of the GB36.

The 1991 GB36 we chartered before buying our own boat is a single with a Cummins 220 hp diesel. The twin engine version of the GB36 from that same time period has two Cummins 220 hp diesels.

The same can be said of the GB42 which from it's introduction in wood was offered in single and twin engine versions. Initially the engine used was typically the FL120. As customer demand for more power grew, so did the engines. From the FL120 GB moved to the FL135 and on into Cats and Cummins, etc.

By the early or mid 1980s (I think) GB42s were almost always ordered as twin-engine boats so it's very rare to find-- or maybe impossible to find if they didn't make any-- single engine GB42s in the later years of its production.

Grand Banks boats could be ordered with whatever engine(s) a buyer or distributor wanted (up to a point). So a good number of GBs have been built with engines other than the factory's standard power. But the standard factory offerings of single and twin engine models used the same engine in each version.
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