1B3: Engine Room
Preferred access to the engine
room is through the floor hatch by
the port doorway in the salon.
Engine room lighting is turned on by
a breaker in the ship’s DC power
panel by the helm (second down in
left row);
high-intensity AC lighting is
also available: turn it on via the
switch by the (unused) forward
hatch under-stairway door inside the
engine room.
Along the forward bulkhead,
from port to starboard, are a shelf
with the refrigeration compressors, Under the shelf is the fresh
water filter and (atop the hull) the port stabilizer actuator. The
stabilizer system components are left of center, then a fixed fire
extinguishing system, fresh water faucet and a hand-held
extinguisher. Next is the unused under-stair door, the battery
switches and combiner, and the inverter. Outboard of the
starboard engine are battery boxes for house/starboard engine
starting battery bank (with a switch for the inverter DC supply) with
the furnace above; the electric wiring cabinet, the engine muffler,
and the macerator pump and its seacock, then the starboard fuel
tank with sight gauge. Just inboard of these is the starboard
Caterpillar 3208-N 210hp engine with its transmission and drive
shaft. Just in front of it is its seacock and sea strainer.
In the center of the engine room aft is the sea strainer for
the generator, the fuel manifold with Racor filters for each engine,
and behind it the generator in its sound shield cabinet with a water
tank beneath (the other is under the galley). Just port of the
generator is its Racor; and the watermaker system’s reverse-osmosis treatment unit. To port of the
port engine from forward is the water heater, the starting battery, the generator starting battery (with
battery switch nearby), the watermaker control unit, and the engine muffler and port fuel tank with sight
gauge. The port engine itself has its sea strainer and seacock just ahead of it; also located here is the
seacock and sea strainer for the refrigeration cooling. Under the teak grid floorboard all the way
forward in the E/R is the sea strainer for the watermaker.
The engine shafts lead from the transmission couplings through the hull via virtually
maintenance-free shaft logs/packing glands. Also in the engine room is a supply of extra lube oil,
battery water, spare parts, oil pads, etc.
Engine Room Access Hatch
Starboard forward E/R: Battery switches, inverter,
autopilot electronics.
Port side of E/R forward: Shelf w/refrigeration;
under it is charcoal water filter; to right part of
stabilizer system.
In the center of the E/R looking aft is the fuel
manifold in front of the generator cabinet.
Section 1B3: Gen'l Description - Engine Room 1.8
