Now it's sitting in our barn, and I'm not sure what I'll do with it. It came out with only a tiny bit of damage to the below-decks varnish. Four of us were involved the crane operator, two helpers (one did nothing other than inflate the bill), and me down below. It doesn't fit out the companionway, so we had to tilt it forward-end down. After removing the transmission to shorten the thing, I had the yard pull the engine using their crane. Some of the circuit breakers have failed, and new ones are not available. The electrical panel and its wiring is a complete mess. And, with the engine compartment empty, this is a great time to rewire that area, which suffers from 42 years of changes, some made poorly. ![]() So I decided it was also time to replace the cutlass bearing and rebuild the stuffing box. The new engine is smaller than the old one, which means we'll need a new prop shaft. We upgraded to the "CW" instrument panel (which has gauges for oil pressure, temperature and voltage), the 120-amp alternator instead of the standard 35A, custom mounts so we don't have to change the engine beds, a taller exhaust riser (needed for our boat where the engine is so low) and connections for a water heater. Though I had been interested in the Beta 30, they convinced me the 25 was more appropriate for the Seawind II we own. This page will be updated from time to time as the work progresses.Īt the Newport Boat Show in September of 2019 Beta Marine offered us a 20% show discount on an engine. For years I've been reluctant to run it above 1800 RPM, figuring it's now a collection of old parts flying in loose formation and fearing that stressing it may cause a major failure. It suffers from too many ills and I'm tired of working on it all of the time. But Voyager's 42-year old Westerbeke engine has become an albatross around my neck. Over the last two decades we've put 4000 hours on our diesel engine in many trips to Bermuda, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, the Caribbean, and New England.
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