f508
Senior Member
Hello everyone, I'm new here and still looking for a boat. I've been reading up on things and of course reading this forum, (it's great) and talking to sellers about their boats.
That brings me to my question. A seller is telling me he doesn't take his boat out, but proudly says "I always run the engines at the dock each week."
Now I am new to marine diesels, but I've always heard that idling a diesel engine isn't the best way to keep it in shape, and in fact it is kind of bad to do just that and not run it up to operating temperature. This owner has had her for about 3 years, she is a Defever with Lehman 135 engines.
Should this history cross this boat off my list?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Frank
That brings me to my question. A seller is telling me he doesn't take his boat out, but proudly says "I always run the engines at the dock each week."
Now I am new to marine diesels, but I've always heard that idling a diesel engine isn't the best way to keep it in shape, and in fact it is kind of bad to do just that and not run it up to operating temperature. This owner has had her for about 3 years, she is a Defever with Lehman 135 engines.
Should this history cross this boat off my list?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Frank