Trawler Engine Room Tour! 

Thanks! My dad was a machinist mate and was in the Navy for 30, so I grew up a brat. Go Navy! : )

@@mikeharrington9337 Machinist Mates & Boiler Technicians worked hand & hand. I served 10 years and my wife was a Hospital Corpsman for 6.

Good ideas. I wonder if there is a better way to talk about the electrical system other than a video, or at least I think I'll need some kind do drawing that I can talk over. I'll give that some thought! -mike

As a drawing consider using your electrical panel(s). Of interest (to me) would be your shore cable(s), your isolation transformer (if you have one), your inverter(s), your batteries, your heavy current switches, your generators, and your alternator(s), your solar panels (if you have them), and the gauges that you use to monitor everything. And just your common sense narration. You do that really well. Thanks

If I could do a Scottish accent I would totally do it. :)

She was! We're really excited to be taking care of her now. We've updated a lot of the systems and I hope to do a video about that someday. Right now we're a bit off of our content creation game -- doing a startup company and video channel at the same time is a bit overwhelming. :)

It's pretty quiet in when we're at the dock. The noise in the background on the video is a fan. I generally keep air moving through the room. Under way it is very loud. I'll dig up a db meter and check it out! The ER is lined with sound proofing, the rest of the boat is nice and quiet.

ER is >90db, salon is 45ish.

Thanks! Life got really busy, trying to catch up, lost to cover!

It's on our list but we don't have a date yet.

Oh man, don't look to closely. : )

@@MVGallivant thats always the way it is with engine rooms :)

Secretly both Mia and I are sailors too. We're still pretty new to it but we had a blast racing a Martin yesterday! Yes, there is only one prop. It's pretty big though...

@@MVGallivant Sailing is a blast did it in my younger years on hobie cats, windsurfing and some small sailing dingy's.. been on motorboats all my life in the ICW and Gulf love the motorboats side of things too not so dependent on wind but love sailing that feeling is not something you can duplicate with motoryacht/boating.. i think it gets in your blood lol

@@MVGallivant So basically if your diesel had some gunk in it you could still get home or would that be an issue cause it comes from the same tanks as the main engine? just trying to figure out how it all works. seen wing engines before on Nordhavn's but that does seem pretty cool and might be a better solution in case of diesel issues or just plain old engine issues..

That's true, if all of the fuel is bad, none of the engines are going to do well. If the fuel in one tank is bad, we can work around that. We could replace the fuel in the day tank with fuel from one of the other tanks (probably the bow tank in this case). I don't know if the Nordhavn wing engines have their own redundant fuel source, if they don't they would have the same problem. The wing engine would have an advantage if the main shaft or prop were not operable. OTOH, while I don't run every part of the get home system that often, most parts are used on a regular basis (genset, hydraulic system, shaft, prop) so it is less likely to suffer a failure due to lack of use. Each system has strengths. Like I said in the video, I like not having another engine to take care of and a little extra space in the engine room. -mike

@@MVGallivant yeah hydraulic is pretty reliable as long as the system is maintained. yeah not sure on the Nordhavn's either just have seen some of them with the wing engine configuration. they have similar shunting values and cleaning systems for the fuel i think as well. i think there is another boat i saw that had some nice features it was a AllSeas 96 i think was the model?? yeah not having another engine to maintain is pretty nice. so if you had electric you could run the hydraulics so maybe some solar arrays would be a good backup for that type of config or not worth it??

yeah like them too

I'm glad they made it to NZ!

@@MVGallivant yeah me too never know when boats start to break and the sea gets rough...

Thanks