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Yanmar LPA Series Marine Diesel
Engine
(260 - 315hp)
Damon Olsen - Nomad Sport
Fishing
"Yanmar - better than I ever thought possible"
"I'm in the business of providing serious anglers with serious game
and sport fishing. This involves taking small groups to sea for two
to three days at a time, so when I decided to build a new boat I was
acutely aware of the need for reliability, comfort and performance.
My custom built 34' Kevlacat charter boat now operating out of
Hervey Bay is powered by a pair of 300hp Yanmar 6LPA series shaft
drive engines. Before specifying Yanmar for the engine room, I
thoroughly checked out other brands and listened to what other
boaties were saying. The name Yanmar kept being mentioned in glowing
terms.
Having now run my Yanmar 6LPA engines for almost 1000 hours, I'm
more impressed now than I was when they were first installed. They
are better than I ever thought an engine could be.
Nomad weighs 6.3 tonnes and each charter trip that I run covers
about 250 nautical miles. We travel big distances to get to where
the fish are, so I need engines that will get us there quickly, that
are light weight and obviously fuel efficient.
Yanmar scores top marks on every count. We cruise at 22 knots with
fuel consumption a miserly 47 litres per hour for both engines. Even
at 25 knots fuel usage is only 3 litres per hour more. At 22 knots
we have a range of almost 400 nautical miles.
With almost a full year at sea with my new Yanmar diesel engines I
am thoroughly impressed. The Yanmar 6LPA engines are amazingly
quiet, much quieter than the other brand of diesels that I had in my
previous boat. And they are reliable. there have been a couple of
routine service checks, but apart from these there hasn't been a
spanner laid on the engines.
I am more impressed now than ever before with my Yanmar engines."
Damon Olsen
Nomad Sport Fishing
Yanmar delivers for me. |
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