| s/y Fiona - our Bruce Roberts Offshore 44' |
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Copyright (c) 2005-2023 Martin Erlandson, Sweden
Engine time!
Exthause swanneck whatever will be placed inside the engine room- Very close to motion center of boat. Now wave should be able to push in water in engine as long as she floats.
Oil cooler in good shape.
Lifted the engine and fixed the area blow engine. Adjusting space for propeller shaft alternator sheave.
Mounted a small bilgepump for engine room.
Engine rubber stands ? and lot of other small stuff.
Below is pictures of amazing stuff!
Removed the engine air inlet and tought "wow - a lot of dirt!" Got my knife and should scrape it away. What!? It was hard as metal!
When making this pipe some worker had missed to fine-tune it. Aluminium was almost covering the whole inlet. Only 20% of air had been sucked in to cylinder 1 and 2 (they share this inlet).
The engine must have been running as mad on higher rpm and loads - it should be running smooth from idle and som e 100 rpm up...Wow. I'll bet former owners had tried to look for the problem....
The engine could not have been a nice thing to run on higher speeds. Probably they have choosen sail before engine! So engine can't have been running a lot. The starter was also as new inside and the fuelpump had no waer at all. The oilpump in the gearbox was also as new. When I poored the engine oil out I notice there where now metallic wear on the drainplg either. Very little carbon inside oilcooler etc, etc.
The engine will last for 30 year more - for sure.
Ok, time to paint under the engine. First grey epoxy then white
Then the engine. I couldn't find any paint in original color that could stand high temp and oil etc. So now the engine is in a wannabe Volvo Green color!
In some way the Volvo color is boring but looks hmm "adekvat" or maybe "reliable"...oh dear no one will look at this except for me.
The not-yet-painted thing to the left is the prop-shaft alternator fitting. A new 65Amp Bosch will produce "water-power" during sailing. I wonder how many A I will get at say 6 knots? There should be some point where max torque from propeller can't rotate the alternator faster...
Practical test will show. I have a prototype for a charging control where I can set maximum current to rotor winding. I must sustain the rpm on alternator for cooling during charging...later...
