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| Repower Articles |
| Nido Del Mar - Repowering a 48 foot Offshore Yachtfisher |
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| It all started with the need for speed.
When we originally purchased our (used) boat it came with twin 200 HP Perkins
Diesels. The boat had a cruise speed of 9kts. At first this was fine especially
considering that we had just sold a sailboat that cruised at four kts. |
| Then we started fishing. Speed soon became
an issue, as we needed to do multiple day trips to get where the fish were.
Just the ride to a spot 50 miles away took 6 hours and that didn’t
include fishing. We started our search for speed with talk of a new boat
and began looking around. We were hoping to find something that did 15 kts
or better. It soon became apparent that we couldn’t replace what we
had and get the speed we wanted without spending a lot more money then we
had in the bank. That meant that we would first have to sell our boat and
still put in a lot of cash. That was when we began to think of re-powering. |
| For us the math made sense. First we knew we got a
great buy on our boat. To replace our boat with other USED boats of the
same type but with larger engines would cost almost double what we had paid.
A few phone calls quickly told us that there was no way we would spend that
much money on a re-power. |
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Nido
Del Mar - 48' Offshore Yachtfisher |
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