Ian Zappala & Vince Trovato - "Sambuca"

"Serious Game Boat - Serious Yanmar Power"

"We love fishing so much that we moved up from an outboard powered trailer boat to this magnificent Sambuca, a Caribbean 28. The boat was purchased new in 1999, but before the final order was placed we researched our engine options.

When it came to engine selection the name that kept coming up all the time was Yanmar. All the comments from boaties were very positive;
no-one had a bad thing to say about them.

The more that we looked into the Yanmar brand the more we liked them. Yanmars are safe, deliver great performance, are highly fuel efficient and quiet. We wanted the best for our dream fishing machine and Yanmar seemed to be the best brand of engine on the market.
Now four years later, the dual Yanmar 4LHA-DTE series of shaft drive engines have logged up 940 hours each and we couldn't be happier. We've had to do nothing more routine than have the engines serviced every 150 hours . they run like clockwork.

We're seriously into game fishing. From our home base at Manly on Moreton Bay, we run up to two hours to get to the fishing grounds 30Nmi offshore, troll up and down at 6 knots for hours on end then make the run back home again. Sambuca competes at game tournaments everywhere from Mooloolaba to the Gold Coast and all points in-between.

Fuel consumption is an important issue with us as we log up big hours at sea. At an average of 12.5 litres per hour per engine, the fuel usage is unbelievably efficient. With 600 litres of fuel on board, we've got 24 hours of running in the tanks.

At wide open throttle Sambuca hits 27 knots (3300 rpm), but we cruise comfortably at 20 knots (2800 rpm) and troll at 6 to 8 knots. If necessary we can idle down to 4 knots.

For low noise, stunning performance and low fuel economy, our Yanmar diesels have certainly exceeded all our expectations. We would happily buy Yanmar again - in fact we wouldn't even look at anything else for our next game boat."

Ian Zappala & Vince Trovato
"Sambuca"

Yanmar delivers for us.