VJameslanza
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2016
- Messages
- 54
- Location
- United States
- Vessel Name
- Encore
- Vessel Make
- 1988 Albin 40 Sundeck trawler
I'm going to apologize in advance in what I expect to be a rather long post.
Yesterday we had our sea trial on the Albin 40 that we're to take delivery of around March 16th in Brunswick, Georgia, a five and a half hour drive from home, and at least a two week meander down the ICW to our home on the West Coast of Florida.
The trial went smashingly, by which I mean we didn't smash into anything. My hired Captain, Trevor Holland was a most impressive young man who has grown up around boats, and his level of expertise would amaze even old salts.
Anyway, the sea trial was under almost perfect conditions, the breeze was out of the West at around 12-15kts, it was sunny, and the only problem encountered during the trial was that the 'Instrumentation package', a Raytheon MFD, had a huge 'burn' in the center of both master and slave readouts, rendering them unusable.
Prior to the sea trial, Trevor went below to the engine room and performed a thorough inspection of the twin Lehman diesels. The engines were started from cold, and ran well. During the trial, the boat was run up from 1800 RPMs to WOT, and the temps and oil pressures held well. We returned to the dock, the first time I've been on the flybridge during a docking, and Captain Trevor demonstrated how to dock with the wind blowing you away from the finger pier with a rather large sailboat tied up next to our empty slip with twin diesels. He made it look so easy, I wanted to try it myself (but the seller and my wife thought better of it till our insurance covered damage).
Captain Trevor and I walked around the entire boat, as he pointed out items that he would want corrected (all minor). He said 'lets take one more look in the engine room'. I'm glad he did! We found a previously very dry area that was now VERY wet. We searched for the source of the leak, and wouldn't you know, the starboard Lehman had developed a pinhole leak in the oil heat exchanger. The pinhole was the size of this period (.) and yet when the motor was started, it produced a prodigious amount of spray.
So, what to do. A worthless instrument package, a compromised oil cooler leak (of course, not on the easily accessible port side of the starboard engine), and a list of minor 'weekend' repairs. Well, we still want the boat, and we're waiting to agree on an allowance for repairs. What would you do? (It's rhetorical!) We've already started to prioritize the repairs when we take delivery and when we take her to her new home.
I'd love to hear of other sea trials, as I expect ours was about par for a Taiwanese Trawler that's approaching her 29th birthday.
Jim
M/V Encore
Albin 40 Sundeck
Yesterday we had our sea trial on the Albin 40 that we're to take delivery of around March 16th in Brunswick, Georgia, a five and a half hour drive from home, and at least a two week meander down the ICW to our home on the West Coast of Florida.
The trial went smashingly, by which I mean we didn't smash into anything. My hired Captain, Trevor Holland was a most impressive young man who has grown up around boats, and his level of expertise would amaze even old salts.
Anyway, the sea trial was under almost perfect conditions, the breeze was out of the West at around 12-15kts, it was sunny, and the only problem encountered during the trial was that the 'Instrumentation package', a Raytheon MFD, had a huge 'burn' in the center of both master and slave readouts, rendering them unusable.
Prior to the sea trial, Trevor went below to the engine room and performed a thorough inspection of the twin Lehman diesels. The engines were started from cold, and ran well. During the trial, the boat was run up from 1800 RPMs to WOT, and the temps and oil pressures held well. We returned to the dock, the first time I've been on the flybridge during a docking, and Captain Trevor demonstrated how to dock with the wind blowing you away from the finger pier with a rather large sailboat tied up next to our empty slip with twin diesels. He made it look so easy, I wanted to try it myself (but the seller and my wife thought better of it till our insurance covered damage).
Captain Trevor and I walked around the entire boat, as he pointed out items that he would want corrected (all minor). He said 'lets take one more look in the engine room'. I'm glad he did! We found a previously very dry area that was now VERY wet. We searched for the source of the leak, and wouldn't you know, the starboard Lehman had developed a pinhole leak in the oil heat exchanger. The pinhole was the size of this period (.) and yet when the motor was started, it produced a prodigious amount of spray.
So, what to do. A worthless instrument package, a compromised oil cooler leak (of course, not on the easily accessible port side of the starboard engine), and a list of minor 'weekend' repairs. Well, we still want the boat, and we're waiting to agree on an allowance for repairs. What would you do? (It's rhetorical!) We've already started to prioritize the repairs when we take delivery and when we take her to her new home.
I'd love to hear of other sea trials, as I expect ours was about par for a Taiwanese Trawler that's approaching her 29th birthday.
Jim
M/V Encore
Albin 40 Sundeck