1984 61 Hatteras CPMY

[capttonyf]

Beautiful Old Girl that's been repowered giving her an 18 Knot Cruise and 23 Knots WOT. Not bad for an old Hatteras. The one thing is the repower is good, but is it bad as well??? Scania Diesels, Never heard of them. Funny thing is, if you look closely at the pictures they say Yanmar on them. Does anyone have any feedback on this? I know there have been a few members kicking around looking for a boat in the 55 to 70 foot range so I figured I'd post it and see if it helps anyone out in there searches.

http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/198...4681/Cape-Coral/FL/United-States#.VzYUNNQrK9I

Tony

 

[Avenger]

Yanmar marinizes Scania engines. Scania is a Swedish truck manufacturer and is part of Saab. Good engines AFAIK. As long as parts and service are available.

 

[GJH]

The Scanias have a pretty good presence in the commercial and government market. Unusual in a rec boat..
Edit: a little research shows indeed Yanmar marinizes and supports these as their own. Somewhat surprised the listing doesn't just call them Yanmars.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

I have owned Scanias in construction equipment. Good life in that application but parts are not cheap. No idea how they last at higher HP ratings.

 

[Boatsb]

Yanmar has them in the 900 hp range if memory serves. Suppose to be a pretty reliable engine.

 

[jim rosenthal]

If parts are available through Yanmar, shouldn't be a problem.

Zimmermann Marine in Virginia has used these engines in a group of boats they've built. I think they are pretty reliable, but Zimmermann's customers tend to be well-heeled folks who don't do their own work and just bring the boats back to them for tuneups.

 

[dsharp]

I have a relative that was running a 135' crewboats. The owner re powered with scania's. They sold him four engines and gave him a fifth to keep for a year for a spare. I went and looked at the boat and they appeared to be a little on the light side when you're used to looking at 12-71's or the kt series Cummins. He didn't have any problems other than the engines over powering the gears and tearing them up. They knew that was a possibility going in. I believe they were around 8-9 hundred hp. The number I heard was 60k each but that's strictly hearsay.

 

[oscarvan]

That boat looks pretty well sorted...... not cheap though.

 

[rtrafford]

Just keep in mind that the higher the RPM the lower the reliable life of the motor.

 

[saltshaker]

Just keep in mind that the higher the RPM the lower the reliable life of the motor.

I'm pretty sure those are Scania DI16s which is a 16 litre V8. The 900HP engine is rated as a medium duty commercial and 2300RPMs max. They rate them to run max rating for about 15% of the runtime per day , 90% load the remainder of the time and 2000 hours per year. Not your typical high RPM low displacement Yanmar.

 

[rtrafford]

I'm pretty sure those are Scania DI16s which is a 16 litre V8. The 900HP engine is rated as a medium duty commercial and 2300RPMs max. They rate them to run max rating for about 15% of the runtime per day , 90% load the remainder of the time and 2000 hours per year. Not your typical high RPM low displacement Yanmar.

Then that's a very good thing....