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AQUILA OPERATING MANUAL
NW Explorations
1B3: Engine Room
Preferred access to the engine room is through the floor
hatch by the lower helm centered in the salon in front of
the galley. Engine room lighting is turned on by breakers in
the ship’s DC and AC power panels by the helm.
(There is also a door to the engine room under the forward
companionway steps in the forward stateroom that is not
used except for emergency access to the battery switches;
it is somewhat blocked by a miscellaneous supplies
storage box in the engine room and is awkward to use
except in emergencies.)
The engines are to each side. On the forward bulkhead
are the DC battery main switches and paralleling relays,
and the ship’s main wiring harness. (There are a number
of equipment and engine pictures throughout this manual.)
On the starboard side from forward aft are a plastic spares
storage and tool boxes, house batteries in boxes, head
system pump and vacuum generator for the forward head,
and engine muffler, all
outboard of the starboard engine
stringer. Aft of these is the fuel tank.
Aft of the starboard John Deere Diesel engine, is the
Y-Valve for the forward head and the sight gauge for the starboard fuel tank. On the side of the starboard fuel
tank are the Racor fuel
filters for the starboard engine and the generator. (The fuel tanks’ sight gauges are in
addition to their electric
gauges at the helm.) All the way aft at the rear bulkhead alongside the starboard fuel tank is the holding tank
overboard pump.
Down the center
of the engine room from the forward end are a removable teak floorboard grid over the
seawater valves/strainers, and all the way aft, the generator seawater intake and valve, the oil change system,
the Onan 9KW generator (with its battery below), the holding tank (under the generator), and a plastic supply
box.
To port in the engine room from the forward end are the battery charger, inverter and inverter battery switch on
the forward bulkhead; the built-in fire protection system; the water pump and water pressure accumulator tank;
ands, outboard of the port John Deer Diesel engine, the water heater. Then aft of the water heater is the aft
head vacuum accumulator/pump, and then the engine and generator muffler, the
Diesel
Furnace fuel filter, and
the “Y Valve” for the aft head. Next is the port fuel tank sight gauge. On the midships side of this fuel tank are
mounted the port engine’s Racor Filters.
Of course, at the rear of each engine is its transmission.
The engine shafts lead from the transmission couplings through the hull via virtually maintenance-free shaft
logs/packing glands.
Hatch to engine room.
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