Marlinmike
Guru
The up side of that little Yanmar is to replace it will not break the bank, but I would expect long service life, sailors are notoriously cheap, they wouldn't want a short term diesel that needed replacing often.
Hello All,
Was searching for anything to do with a Finn8 and stumbled across this site and thread. My boat is a Finn8, recently acquired, and I noted with enjoyment the confusion the double ended design has caused. Nothing new there. The boating community around where I live has responded in a similar fashion. I have thought about painting Port and Starboard different colors. Now that would give cause to some serious commentary!
Regarding the real topic of this thread, I have used raw water cooled Yanmars for many years and am not disappointed. At the risk of stating the obvious, with raw water cooling the number one requirement is to check the sacrificial anodes. Yanmars often make access to the anode plugs difficult, but the more often you do it, the easier it gets.
Hello Gaston.
Interesting... All I know is that my Finn had a faded Qld registration number.
I purchased the Finn 8 "Pintail" in February 2019 and it is currently moored in Geilston Bay, Hobart. I have been following these boats since the 1980's and have copies of numerous old boat tests from when they were first built by Setoncraft Marine in Gosford in the early 1980's.