Convert the entire forward cabin to fuel tanks, when the nose starts
coming up you know it is time to refuel... You'd have to rename it
SuperMacGregor though...
Graham Collins
Secret Plans
C&C 35-III #11
Rich Knowles wrote:
Yessiree, Dennis! Great idea. I'd have to do some serious work on
tankage as well, I guess, or I'd just get her flashed up and have to
refuel immediately.
Rich Knowles
Indigo. LF38
Halifax
On 2012-09-27, at 8:54, "Dennis C." <capt...@yahoo.com
<mailto:capt...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
Rich,
I'm thinking with a little work you could mount one of Seven Marine's
557 hp outboards on the transom.
Denis C.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 26, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Rich Knowles <r...@sailpower.ca
<mailto:r...@sailpower.ca>> wrote:
Jeff, you are getting me worried. I have another couple hours and
I'll be ready to start my refurbed Yanmar. Maybe I should get an
outboard....
Rich Knowles
Indigo. LF38
Halifax
On 2012-09-26, at 23:27, Jeff Cole <cncli...@sailmasala.com
<mailto:cncli...@sailmasala.com>> wrote:
Way back in the previous millenium, I had a C&C 25 with a Vire 7.
The inboard had been a selling point when I bought the boat.
Once the engine got to be 20-ish years old, it was sounding awfully
bad, so I sank many hours and hundreds of dollars worth of parts into
a re-built - bearings, seals, etc. Guess we (I had a helper)
messed up something 'cuz it only ran for about 30-40 seconds after
the rebuilt and then died with a disintegrating piston.
I gave it away for parts, and put a new, long-shaft, electric start
Honda outboard on the transom. What a vast improvement in noise
levels, fuel efficiency, pollution emissions, power, thrust and
reliability ! It was infinitely better, and much less costly than a
re-built diesel, which wasn't in the budget.
For folks that aren't familiar with the Vire 7, it's a
single-cylinder, two-stroke gasoline inboard.
Bill - seriously consider just getting a really good outboard - long
shaft, high-thrust prop, and put it on a really good mount that gets
the outboard close to the water and keeps the prop in the water even
when pitching into waves. It can be done, and it's far less money
than an inboard.
Cheers,
Jeff
ex: 1976 C&C 25 "Sir Behari"
Now: 1979 C&C Landfall 38 "Masala", being prepared for haul out next
week in Wiarton, Ontario
On 9/20/2012 5:59 PM, wster1...@aol.com wrote:
Talked to a guy at the boat yard today and he had nothing good to
say about the Vire 7 engine. Is it worth looking for one? Seems
equally hard to find a Yanmar 1GM. Any ideas thanks. Bill
Sterling-Kingston N.Y.
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